If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
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.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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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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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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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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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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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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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental 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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See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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