Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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.
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So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Healing 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.
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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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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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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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See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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