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What's your avocado? — Stacie Zinn Roberts

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. — Howard Zinn

Diverse audiences can be just as misled as homogenous audiences. — Howard Zinn

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits. — Howard Zinn

Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." OBAMA — Will Schwalbe

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

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. — Howard Zinn

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. — 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

Party politics and religion now substituting for class conflict. — Howard 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

He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness. — 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

was allowed to merge with Hartford. It was all settled out of court, — Howard Zinn

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. — Howard Zinn

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

To hell with your courts, I know what justice is. — Howard Zinn

[T]hat combination of inferior status and derogatory thought [is what] we call racism. — Howard Zinn

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower? — Howard 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

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. — Howard Zinn

grievances of the lowest classes mingled with — Howard Zinn

Breathe and let be. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Free white workers were better off than slaves or servants, but they still resented unfair treatment by the wealthier classes. — Howard Zinn

If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists — Howard Zinn

In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead. — Howard Zinn

I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country. — Howard Zinn

Capital punishment could not be justified in any society calling itself civilized. — Howard Zinn

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people. — Howard Zinn

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. — Howard Zinn

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives. — Howard Zinn

The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States. — Howard Zinn

Only one fear was greater than the fear of black rebellion in the new American colonies. — Howard Zinn

will not hold ourselves bound to obey the laws in which we have no voice of representation. — Howard Zinn

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government. — Howard Zinn

Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people. — Howard Zinn

How you look isn't about the face you were born with, it's what you do with it. — Bridget Zinn

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress. — Howard Zinn

Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart. — Myla Kabat-Zinn

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable. — 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

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is ... to tell the truth. — Howard 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

Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else. — 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

The future is an infinite succession of presents — Howard Zinn

In war, good guys always become bad guys. — Howard Zinn

Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?' — Howard Zinn

Rarely are we in touch with who is doing the doing - or, put otherwise, with the world of being. To — Jon Kabat-Zinn

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens. — Howard Zinn

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now. — 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

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Our ethos is all that we currently hold to be true. It is what we act upon. It governs our manners, our business, and our politics. — Howard Zinn

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. — Howard Zinn

Ruling elites seem to have learned through the generations - consciously or not - that war makes them more secure against internal trouble. — Howard Zinn

There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

The real meditation is how you live your life. — 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

New York blacks could not vote unless they owned $250 in property (a qualification not applied to whites). — Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. — Alice Walker

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about. — Howard Zinn

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end. — Howard Zinn

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this. — Howard Zinn

Ariana, there's a small rodent on your face. Thought you should know."
"It's a mustache. Kyra assured me that it's extremely convincing. — Bridget Zinn

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold. — Howard Zinn

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. — Howard Zinn

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism. — Howard Zinn

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us — Howard Zinn

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? — Howard Zinn

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world. — Howard Zinn

Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning. — Howard Zinn

Cannot be imposed, legislated, or decreed. They can only be cultivated, and — Jon Kabat-Zinn

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is. — Howard Zinn

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves. — 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

Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing? — Jon Kabat-Zinn

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation. — Howard 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

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won. — Howard 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

Dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging. — Jon Kabat-Zinn