You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
JON KABAT-ZINNPractice 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.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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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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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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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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But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.
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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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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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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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Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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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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This is something called “walking meditation.” The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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