Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
JON KABAT-ZINNDying 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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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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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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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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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 simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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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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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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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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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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