In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
JON KABAT-ZINNMeditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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