See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
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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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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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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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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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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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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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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If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
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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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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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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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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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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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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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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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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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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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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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