Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
JON KABAT-ZINNYou are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.
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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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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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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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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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If 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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