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.
JON KABAT-ZINNWhen awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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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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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.
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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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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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If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
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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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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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