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.
JON KABAT-ZINNOne 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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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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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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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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Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it’s also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the life span, and the greatest feelings of interconnectedness and community and belonging.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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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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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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