Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
JON KABAT-ZINNAll the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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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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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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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
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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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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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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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