Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
JON KABAT-ZINNMaybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
JON KABAT-ZINNWhen you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
JON KABAT-ZINNWe take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
JON KABAT-ZINNMeditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
JON KABAT-ZINNYou can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
JON KABAT-ZINNPractice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
JON KABAT-ZINNThis is something called “walking meditation.” The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
JON KABAT-ZINNOne 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.
JON KABAT-ZINNJust 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?
JON KABAT-ZINNSo, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
JON KABAT-ZINNMake a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
JON KABAT-ZINNWe 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-ZINNMindful 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.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.
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