Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
JON KABAT-ZINNIntelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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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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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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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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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.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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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.
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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 you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we’re continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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