black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Fear Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual Thinking Wisdom
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Addiction Preparation Sight Stress Suffering 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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Action Compassionate Cultivate Life Love Mindset Yourself
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Arrive Desire Illusion Place
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Community Feeling Hard Job Mindset Potential
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Important Priority Yourself
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Death Deep Himself Philosophy
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Change Feeling Growth Learning Moments Pay Present Time
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Meditation Point Society Suffering Tradition View
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Aware Different Mindset Talk Way
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-ZINN

Eat Huge News Walk Yourself
Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Mind Pay Purpose Way 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?
JON KABAT-ZINN

Imitation Journey Path Preparation Respect True Unique Way Yourself
It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Act Love Quiet Time Yourself
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Deserve Dignity Reminder Time Worth
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Activity Human Improvement Intention Meditation Simplicity System Yourself

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes