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Mindful 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-Zinn

See 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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Happiness Hold On Let Go Satisfaction
The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we’re continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.
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Attention Change Feeling Growth Learning Moments Pay Present Time
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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Acceptance Blessing Deserve Feeling Gift Practice Purpose Self Love Simplicity Time True Universe
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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Chance Death Live Ourselves Risk Wake Up
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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Addiction Preparation Sight Stress Suffering Yourself
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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Deserve Dignity Reminder Time Worth
You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Alive Moments Yourself
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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Incredible Practice Writing
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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Aspect Breathe Calm Concentration Focus Meditation Place Training Wonderful
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
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Action Compassionate Cultivate Life Love Mindset Yourself
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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Acceptance Demonstration Fact Patience Time Understand Wisdom
It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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Act Love Quiet Time Yourself
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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Feeling Force Healing Ourselves Security Struggle Time
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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Aware Darkness Fundamental Gold Health Hold Pain Strong Yourself
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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Act Compassionate Integrity Kindness Spiritual
Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Act Love Sanity Stop
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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Deep Myself Place See Simplicity Wisdom
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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Aware Different Mindset Talk Way
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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Let Go Meditation Practice Try Way
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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Death Deep Himself Philosophy
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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Important Priority Yourself
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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Arise Hold On Moments Reject Seek Wisdom
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Affection Attention Thinking Wisdom Yourself
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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Attention Judgment Mindset Moments Pay Present Purpose
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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Arrive Desire Illusion Place
We 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.
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Avoid Darkness Face Way Willing
Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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Aware Beautiful Live Meaning Missing Ourselves State

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