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?
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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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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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.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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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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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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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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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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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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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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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.
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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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