If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.
JON KABAT-ZINNIf you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.
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-ZINNThe 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.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
JON KABAT-ZINNPaying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
JON KABAT-ZINNWriting can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
JON KABAT-ZINNThis is something called “walking meditation.” The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.
JON KABAT-ZINNLiving in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
JON KABAT-ZINNJust watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
JON KABAT-ZINNIn letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
JON KABAT-ZINNHe who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe 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.
JON KABAT-ZINNMeditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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-ZINNMeditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
JON KABAT-ZINNPerhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
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