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.
JON KABAT-ZINNToo 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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Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we’re continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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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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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
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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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