Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
JON KABAT-ZINNToo 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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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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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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This is something called “walking meditation.” The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.
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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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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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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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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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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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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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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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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