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-ZINNIn any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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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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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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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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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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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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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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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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