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.
JON KABAT-ZINNYou are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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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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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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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 means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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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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Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
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