Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
JON KABAT-ZINNSo, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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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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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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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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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
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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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Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
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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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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 awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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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