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-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.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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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.
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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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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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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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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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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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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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