Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
JON KABAT-ZINNNo one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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.
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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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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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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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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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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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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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