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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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
So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
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Let Go Meditation Practice Try Way
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Attention Believe Boredom Interest Pay Yourself
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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Arrive Desire Illusion Place
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
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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Best Enthusiasm Family Practice Presence Spirit World Yourself
Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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Aware Beautiful Live Meaning Missing Ourselves State
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Affection Attention Thinking Wisdom Yourself
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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Body Connection Development Kind Meditation Technology
If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.
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Addiction Brain Conversation People Yourself
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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Aware Darkness Fundamental Gold Health Hold Pain Strong Yourself
In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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Let Go Magic Moments Special Time
Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Act Love Sanity Stop
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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Fear Honesty Live Ocean Ourselves Truth
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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Aware Different Mindset Talk Way
Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Be Yourself Meditation Simplicity

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

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