Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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.
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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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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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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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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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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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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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See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
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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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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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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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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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