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.
JON KABAT-ZINNJust stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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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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Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
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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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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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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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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