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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Be Yourself Meditation Simplicity
You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Alive Moments Yourself
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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Body Connection Development Kind Meditation Technology
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
When you’re walking, just walk. When you’re eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that’s huge.
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Eat Huge News Walk Yourself
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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Attention Freedom Intelligence Mom
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Affection Attention Thinking Wisdom Yourself
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
Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Act Love Sanity Stop
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Defect Moments Practice
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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Attention Capacity Human Pay Universe
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.
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Community Feeling Hard Job Mindset Potential
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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Commitment Eat Ethics Garden Harmony Young Yourself
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.
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Awake Live Mindset Moments Ourselves Powerful Resource Transformation
Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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Human Meditation Yourself
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.
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Fear Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual Thinking Wisdom

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

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