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But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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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Attention Mind Pay Purpose Way World Yourself
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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Happiness Hold On Let Go Satisfaction
Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it’s also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the life span, and the greatest feelings of interconnectedness and community and belonging.
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Community Feeling Hard Job Mindset Potential
If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.
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Addiction Brain Conversation People Yourself
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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Attention Capacity Human Pay Universe
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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Incredible Practice Writing
Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Mindset Travel
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Attention Meditation Point Society Suffering Tradition View
When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Aware Embrace Enlightenment Inspirational Live Spiritual
Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Awake Mindset Yourself
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Attention Believe Boredom Interest Pay Yourself
Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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Aware Judgement Moments Practice
When you’re walking, just walk. When you’re eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that’s huge.
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Eat Huge News Walk Yourself
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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Let Go Meditation Practice Try Way
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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Aware Different Mindset Talk Way
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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Arrive Desire Illusion Place

But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

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But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

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