Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
JON KABAT-ZINNIt is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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When you’re walking, just walk. When you’re eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that’s huge.
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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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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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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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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
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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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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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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.
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