We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
JON KABAT-ZINNAll the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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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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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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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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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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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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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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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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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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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