black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Act Love Quiet Time Yourself
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Meditation Point Society Suffering Tradition View
Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Deep Feeling Meditation Way Yourself
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Acceptance Blessing Deserve Feeling Gift Practice Purpose Self Love Simplicity Time True Universe
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Eat Huge News Walk Yourself
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Capacity Cultivate Education Focus Ourselves Student System
When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Certain Experience Present Soul View
The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Aware Darkness Fundamental Gold Health Hold Pain Strong Yourself
Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Act Love Sanity Stop
Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Aware Judgement Moments Practice
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?
JON KABAT-ZINN

Imitation Journey Path Preparation Respect True Unique Way Yourself
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Important Priority Yourself
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Capacity Human Pay Universe
But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Commitment Eat Ethics Garden Harmony Young Yourself
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Aware Different Mindset Talk Way
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Acceptance Demonstration Fact Patience Time Understand Wisdom

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes