Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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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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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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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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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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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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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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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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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