black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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-ZINN

Community Feeling Hard Job Mindset Potential
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Change Feeling Growth Learning Moments Pay Present Time
Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
JON KABAT-ZINN

Imitation Journey Path Preparation Respect True Unique Way Yourself
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Freedom Intelligence Mom
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Defect Moments Practice
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Addiction Brain Conversation People Yourself
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Commitment Eat Ethics Garden Harmony Young Yourself
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Aware Beautiful Live Meaning Missing Ourselves State
Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Be Yourself Meditation Simplicity
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Believe Boredom Interest Pay Yourself
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Deserve Dignity Reminder Time Worth
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Body Connection Development Kind Meditation Technology
No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Body Growth Healing Listening Responsibility Yourself
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Acceptance Blessing Deserve Feeling Gift Practice Purpose Self Love Simplicity Time True Universe
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Addiction Preparation Sight Stress Suffering Yourself

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes