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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Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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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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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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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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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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Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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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.
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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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If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
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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.
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No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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