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-ZINNIf we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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.
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Just 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?
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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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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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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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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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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