black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

If 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-ZINN

Fear Honesty Live Ocean Ourselves Truth
In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Let Go Magic Moments Special Time
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Deserve Dignity Reminder Time Worth
When you’re walking, just walk. When you’re eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that’s huge.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Eat Huge News Walk Yourself
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Capacity Cultivate Education Focus Ourselves Student System
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Capacity Human Pay Universe
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Aware Darkness Fundamental Gold Health Hold Pain Strong Yourself
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Mind Pay Purpose Way World Yourself
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Freedom Intelligence Mom
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Addiction Preparation Sight Stress Suffering Yourself
Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it’s also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the life span, and the greatest feelings of interconnectedness and community and belonging.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Community Feeling Hard Job Mindset Potential
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Important Priority Yourself
Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Fear Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual Thinking Wisdom
Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
JON KABAT-ZINN

Imitation Journey Path Preparation Respect True Unique Way Yourself
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Activity Human Improvement Intention Meditation Simplicity System Yourself
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Arrive Desire Illusion Place

Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes