He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
JON KABAT-ZINNBut 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.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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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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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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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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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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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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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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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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See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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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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