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.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
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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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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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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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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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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
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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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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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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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