Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
JON KABAT-ZINNBreathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
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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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If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
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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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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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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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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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