Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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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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No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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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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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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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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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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