No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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.
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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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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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See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
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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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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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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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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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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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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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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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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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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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