Jon Kabat-Zinn - Meditation Quotes

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Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

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

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment 'practice' or 'meditation practice.'

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

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.

Jon Kabat-Zinn