Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
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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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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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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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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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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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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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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