Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
JON KABAT-ZINNWriting can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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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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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it’s also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the life span, and the greatest feelings of interconnectedness and community and belonging.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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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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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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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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