Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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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Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
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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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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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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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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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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 experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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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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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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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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