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.
JON KABAT-ZINNPerhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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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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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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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.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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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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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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