Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe 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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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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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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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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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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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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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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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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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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