Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
JON KABAT-ZINNHealing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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This 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.
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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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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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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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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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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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