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-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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.
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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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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.
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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.
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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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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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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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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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