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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.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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
The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Live Meditation Moments Ourselves Reality
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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Aware Beautiful Live Meaning Missing Ourselves State
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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Body Connection Development Kind Meditation Technology
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Attention Believe Boredom Interest Pay Yourself
Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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Capacity Cultivate Education Focus Ourselves Student System
You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Alive Moments Yourself
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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Body Growth Healing Listening Responsibility Yourself
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
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Deep Myself Place See Simplicity Wisdom
When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Aware Embrace Enlightenment Inspirational Live Spiritual
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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Act Compassionate Integrity Kindness Spiritual
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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Attention Judgment Mindset Moments Pay Present Purpose
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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Best Enthusiasm Family Practice Presence Spirit World Yourself
The real meditation is how you live your life.
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Life Live Meditation Reality
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
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

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