The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
JON KABAT-ZINNYou can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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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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No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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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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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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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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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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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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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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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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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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