When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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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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Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
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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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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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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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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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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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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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