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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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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Activity Human Improvement Intention Meditation Simplicity System Yourself
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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Feeling Force Healing Ourselves Security Struggle Time
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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Aware Darkness Fundamental Gold Health Hold Pain Strong Yourself
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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Death Deep Himself Philosophy
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Best Care Future Present Time
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Defect Moments Practice
Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Mindset Travel
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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Aspect Breathe Calm Concentration Focus Meditation Place Training Wonderful
Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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Human Meditation Yourself
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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Attention Judgment Mindset Moments Pay Present Purpose
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Affection Attention Thinking Wisdom Yourself
Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
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Chance Death Live Ourselves Risk Wake Up
The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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Moments Wisdom Worth
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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Acceptance Blessing Deserve Feeling Gift Practice Purpose Self Love Simplicity Time True Universe
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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Important Priority Yourself
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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Addiction Preparation Sight Stress Suffering Yourself

Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

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