The real meditation is how you live your life.
JON KABAT-ZINNWhen you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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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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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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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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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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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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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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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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