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-ZINNIn letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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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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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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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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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.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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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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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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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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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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