When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
JON KABAT-ZINNWe must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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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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The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
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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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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.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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