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.
JON KABAT-ZINNWhen 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.
JON KABAT-ZINNMeditation 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.
JON KABAT-ZINNLiving in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
JON KABAT-ZINNMeditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
JON KABAT-ZINNVoluntary 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.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness 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.
JON KABAT-ZINNThis is something called “walking meditation.” The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.
JON KABAT-ZINNFrom the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
JON KABAT-ZINNIntelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
JON KABAT-ZINNWhen awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
JON KABAT-ZINNMeditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
JON KABAT-ZINNIf you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness 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-ZINNNo one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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