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.
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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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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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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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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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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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
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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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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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