Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
JON KABAT-ZINNPractice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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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.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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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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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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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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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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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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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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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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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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