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What's your avocado?
— Stacie Zinn Roberts
War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
— 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
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
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
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
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
Free white workers were better off than slaves or servants, but they still resented unfair treatment by the wealthier classes.
— 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
(Jefferson's personal distaste for slavery must be put alongside the fact that he owned hundreds of slaves to the day he died).
— 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
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
The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us
— Howard 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
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
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
In war, good guys always become bad guys.
— Howard Zinn
They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
— Howard 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
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
Rarely are we in touch with who is doing the doing - or, put otherwise, with the world of being. To
— Jon Kabat-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
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
— 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
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
— Howard 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
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
"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
Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.
— Howard 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
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
— 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
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
— Howard 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
After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.
— 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
Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning.
— Howard 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
[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
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
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 not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Ruling elites seem to have learned through the generations - consciously or not - that war makes them more secure against internal trouble.
— Howard Zinn
The real meditation is how you live your life.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn