The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see?… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment.… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’ — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Oh, I’ve had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I’d have more of them. In fact, I’d… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Once in awhile throughout the day...let go into full acceptance of the present moment, including how you are feeling and what you… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that's what you've wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or… — 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
Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
We are continuously bombarded with information, appeals, deadlines, communications... We are continually being squeezed or projected into the future as our present… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“The future that we want - this is it. This is the future of all the previous thoughts you've ever had about… — 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
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
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
You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never… — 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
