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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

The real meditation is how you live your life.
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Life Live Meditation Reality
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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Aware Different Mindset Talk Way
You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Alive Moments Yourself
Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Mindset Travel
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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Acceptance Demonstration Fact Patience Time Understand Wisdom
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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Deserve Dignity Reminder Time Worth
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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Happiness Hold On Let Go Satisfaction
Mindfulness 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.
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Action Compassionate Cultivate Life Love Mindset Yourself
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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Attention Capacity Human Pay Universe
But 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.
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Commitment Eat Ethics Garden Harmony Young Yourself
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Attention Meditation Point Society Suffering Tradition View
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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Attention Mind Pay Purpose Way World Yourself
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Choice Inspirational Learning Stop Wave Yourself
Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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Human Meditation Yourself
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?
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Imitation Journey Path Preparation Respect True Unique Way Yourself
One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that’s been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
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Body Connection Development Kind Meditation Technology

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.

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