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?
JON KABAT-ZINNThis 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.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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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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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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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.
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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
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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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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?
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Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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