You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
JON KABAT-ZINNNote 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?
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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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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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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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we’re continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.
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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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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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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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