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.
JON KABAT-ZINNDying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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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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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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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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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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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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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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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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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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