Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
JON KABAT-ZINNIf 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.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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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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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
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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?
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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.
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