Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.
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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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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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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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Just 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?
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
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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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Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
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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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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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