Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
JON KABAT-ZINNYou could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.
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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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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
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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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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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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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Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
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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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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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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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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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