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.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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 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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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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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.
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Breathing 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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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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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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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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