Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it’s also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the life span, and the greatest feelings of interconnectedness and community and belonging.
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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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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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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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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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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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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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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We 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.
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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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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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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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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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