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 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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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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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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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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?
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