You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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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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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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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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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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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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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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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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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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See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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