Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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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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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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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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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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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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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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No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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