No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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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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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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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
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The 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.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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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 awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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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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