When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
JON KABAT-ZINNWhen 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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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.
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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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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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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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Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
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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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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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Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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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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