The real meditation is how you live your life.
JON KABAT-ZINNIn letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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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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See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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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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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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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.
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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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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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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.
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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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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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