All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
JON KABAT-ZINNJust stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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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.
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Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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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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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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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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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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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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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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