The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
JON KABAT-ZINNThis 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.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this 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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If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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