When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
JON KABAT-ZINNWhen awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
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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.
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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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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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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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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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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.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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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.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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