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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.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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Capacity Cultivate Education Focus Ourselves Student System
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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Addiction Preparation Sight Stress Suffering Yourself
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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Change Experience Feeling Goal Learning Meditation Moment Myself Walk
Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Mindset Travel
But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.
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Commitment Eat Ethics Garden Harmony Young Yourself
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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Aspect Breathe Calm Concentration Focus Meditation Place Training Wonderful
It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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Act Love Quiet Time Yourself
When you’re walking, just walk. When you’re eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that’s huge.
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Eat Huge News Walk Yourself
Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
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Fear Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual Thinking Wisdom
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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Deep Myself Place See Simplicity Wisdom
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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Attention Change Feeling Growth Learning Moments Pay Present Time
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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Awake Live Mindset Moments Ourselves Powerful Resource Transformation
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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Attention Freedom Intelligence Mom
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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Death Deep Himself Philosophy
Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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Human Meditation Yourself
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Defect Moments Practice

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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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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