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.
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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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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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.
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Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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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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The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we’re continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.
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One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that’s been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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