The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
JON KABAT-ZINNPatience 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.
JON KABAT-ZINNAll the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
JON KABAT-ZINNIn any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
JON KABAT-ZINNArriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
JON KABAT-ZINNMake a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
JON KABAT-ZINNIf we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness 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.
JON KABAT-ZINNIntelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
JON KABAT-ZINNBut 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-ZINNWe must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.
JON KABAT-ZINNWriting can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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