Jon Kabat-Zinn Short Quotes

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

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The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

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There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.

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

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See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance

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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

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A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.

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

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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

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So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

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

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If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

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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.

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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.

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Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

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Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

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See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

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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?

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Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

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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.

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Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

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Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

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The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

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But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

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Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

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Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

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If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles...

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