In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness 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.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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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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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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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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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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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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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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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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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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