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?
JON KABAT-ZINNJust stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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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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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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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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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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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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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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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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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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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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