All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
JON KABAT-ZINNStillness, 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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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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.
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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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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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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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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
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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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No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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