Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
JON KABAT-ZINNYou can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
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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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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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Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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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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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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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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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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