There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Awareness Is Not The Same As ThoughtMore Like A Vessel Which Can Hold And Contain Our Thinking — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complementary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
"Resting in awareness" is one of those phrases used a lot by people who practice mindfulness. But when I tried to do… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Awareness requires only that we pay attention and see things as they are. It doesn't require that we change anything.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“not get caught in their habitual patterning, to see thoughts for what they are, impersonal events, and instead be the knowing that… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“[L]ive life as if each moment was important, as if each moment counted and could be worked with, even if it was… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this,"… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
When your alarm goes off and you jump out of bed, what is the nature of the mind in that moment? Are… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“The habit of ignoring our present moments in favor of others yet to come leads directly to a pervasive lack of awareness… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“There is really no natural limit to the practice of loving kindness in meditation or in one’s life. It is an ongoing,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
“One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
I thought it was a stroke of genius that Hans Selye used the word stress, because it's true that if you don't know how… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
“dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them… Without knowing it, we are… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
“In fact, even if distraction does alleviate your pain or help to cope with it some of the time, bringing mindfulness to it can… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
![“[L]ive life as if each moment was important, as if each moment counted and could be worked with, even if it was a moment of pain, sadness, despair, or fear. This "work" involves above all the regular, disciplined practice of moment-to-moment awareness or mindfulness, the complete "owning" of each…” quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/13c/jon-kabat-zinn-1327_awareness_l-ive-life-as-if-each-moment-was-importa_882658.jpg)
