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-ZINNSee for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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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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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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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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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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