Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
Top 91 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn Famous Quotes & Sayings
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immersed in a seemingly never-ending stream of thoughts, coming willy-nilly one after another in rapid succession.
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming.
Rather, it is bearing in mind what is most important to you so that it is not lost or betrayed in the heat and reactivity of a particular moment.
Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
What does happen as we intentionally pay attention to our breathing is that we realize pretty quickly that we are
As long as you are breathing there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.
I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.
Perhaps over time we can adjust our default setting to one of greater mindfulness rather than of mindlessness and being lost in thought. As
ultimately, mindfulness is intimacy - with ourselves and the world - underneath any apparent separation between the two. The
After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.
it is the awareness that is of primary importance, no matter what the objects are that we are paying attention to.
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.
Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.
So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
In all the meditative traditions of the world, visualizations and imagery are used to invoke particular qualities of mind and heart.
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.
Just because you decide to still your body and observe your breath from moment to moment doesn't mean that your thinking mind is going to cooperate.
Maybe the fear is that
we are less than
we think we are,
when the
actuality of it
is that we are much much more.
we are less than
we think we are,
when the
actuality of it
is that we are much much more.
Meditation is like farming ... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.
Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.
Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.
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?
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
No one can listen to your body for you ... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.