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Body Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

10 Body quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

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If you’re looking for a quick glimpse into how Jon Kabat‑Zinn connects awareness with physical experience, this handful of reflections offers a concise start. Each line shows his gentle, present‑moment tone, inviting you to notice sensations without over‑thinking. It’s a modest set, but enough to feel his calm approach to embodied mindfulness.

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No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it…

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The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us…

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The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the…

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Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body,…

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There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time…

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One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions…

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Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of…

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Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or…

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The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices…

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In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving…

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“dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.”

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The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

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“Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.”

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