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immersed in a seemingly never-ending stream of thoughts, coming willy-nilly one after another in rapid succession.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Be a light unto yourself.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath. KABIR
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
You have to actually make the time to practice every day, because otherwise you will not find it.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Comes up with. This is the flavor of true intentionality and inner discipline. You do it simply
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness has been called the heart of Buddhist meditation.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Knowing what you are doing while you are doing it is the essence of mindfulness practice.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
What does happen as we intentionally pay attention to our breathing is that we realize pretty quickly that we are
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
As long as you are breathing there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Any change that comes about in your life will be primarily because of your own efforts
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Breathe and let be.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Perhaps over time we can adjust our default setting to one of greater mindfulness rather than of mindlessness and being lost in thought. As
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
ultimately, mindfulness is intimacy - with ourselves and the world - underneath any apparent separation between the two. The
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
We all come into and go out of this world as passing gatherings of structured energy.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Group meditation according to Jon Kabat
— Howard Zinn
it is the awareness that is of primary importance, no matter what the objects are that we are paying attention to.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
In all the meditative traditions of the world, visualizations and imagery are used to invoke particular qualities of mind and heart.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
The real meditation is how you live your life.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
we are less than
we think we are,
when the
actuality of it
is that we are much much more. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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?
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
The present is the only time that we have to know anything.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
There is more right with you than wrong with you" - those
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
No one can listen to your body for you ... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
You make problem, you have problem
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Rarely are we in touch with who is doing the doing - or, put otherwise, with the world of being. To
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn