Perhaps 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.
JON KABAT-ZINNMeditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
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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.
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Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
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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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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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