You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
JON KABAT-ZINNFrom the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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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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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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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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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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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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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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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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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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Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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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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