One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that’s been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe real meditation is how you live your life.
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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
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See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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This is something called “walking meditation.” The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.
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If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.
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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
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Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.
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Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
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The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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