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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.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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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Act Compassionate Integrity Kindness Spiritual
You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Alive Moments Yourself
In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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Let Go Magic Moments Special Time
If 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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Addiction Brain Conversation People Yourself
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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Fear Honesty Live Ocean Ourselves Truth
The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Live Meditation Moments Ourselves Reality
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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Attention Capacity Human Pay Universe
Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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Aware Beautiful Live Meaning Missing Ourselves State
No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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Body Growth Healing Listening Responsibility Yourself
Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Deep Feeling Meditation Way Yourself
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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Attention Freedom Intelligence Mom
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
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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Body Connection Development Kind Meditation Technology
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Affection Attention Thinking Wisdom Yourself
Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Awake Mindset Yourself
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Defect Moments Practice

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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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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