Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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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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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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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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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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