black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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-Zinn

The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Moments Wisdom Worth
We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Avoid Darkness Face Way Willing
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Best Care Future Present Time
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
It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Act Love Quiet Time Yourself
So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Let Go Meditation Practice Try Way
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Death Deep Himself Philosophy
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Meditation Point Society Suffering Tradition View
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Awake Live Mindset Moments Ourselves Powerful Resource Transformation
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
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Deep Myself Place See Simplicity Wisdom
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Believe Boredom Interest Pay Yourself
The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Aware Darkness Fundamental Gold Health Hold Pain Strong Yourself
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-ZINN

Activity Human Improvement Intention Meditation Simplicity System Yourself
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Judgment Mindset Moments Pay Present Purpose
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Acceptance Demonstration Fact Patience Time Understand Wisdom
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Aware Different Mindset Talk Way
Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Awake Mindset Yourself
In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Let Go Magic Moments Special 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
When you’re walking, just walk. When you’re eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that’s huge.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Eat Huge News Walk Yourself
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
See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Happiness Hold On Let Go Satisfaction
Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Aspect Breathe Calm Concentration Focus Meditation Place Training Wonderful
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Affection Attention Thinking Wisdom Yourself
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
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Incredible Practice Writing

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes