Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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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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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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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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Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it’s also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the life span, and the greatest feelings of interconnectedness and community and belonging.
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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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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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