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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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Aware Different Mindset Talk Way
If 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.
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Addiction Brain Conversation People 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
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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Important Priority Yourself
Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Mindset Travel
Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Be Yourself Meditation Simplicity
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Best Care Future Present Time
You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Alive Moments Yourself
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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Capacity Cultivate Education Focus Ourselves Student System
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Choice Inspirational Learning Stop Wave Yourself
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
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Change Feeling Moments Try Yourself
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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Attention Change Feeling Growth Learning Moments Pay Present Time
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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Deserve Dignity Reminder Time Worth
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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Body Growth Healing Listening Responsibility Yourself
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Attention Meditation Point Society Suffering Tradition View
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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Arrive Desire Illusion Place
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
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
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Best Enthusiasm Family Practice Presence Spirit World Yourself
Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
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Imitation Journey Path Preparation Respect True Unique Way Yourself
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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Activity Human Improvement Intention Meditation Simplicity System Yourself
Mindfulness 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.
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Action Compassionate Cultivate Life Love Mindset Yourself
If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
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Fear Honesty Live Ocean Ourselves Truth
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
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Defect Moments Practice
In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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Let Go Magic Moments Special Time
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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Death Deep Himself Philosophy
Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
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Act Compassionate Integrity Kindness Spiritual

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

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