Feels Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

13 Feels quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat‑Zinn approaches feeling with the same grounded presence he brings to mindfulness practice. In these thirteen notes you’ll sense a gentle urging to notice sensations without judgment, inviting a calm awareness of inner currents.

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Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once…

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Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much…

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The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment.…

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Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing…

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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?…

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Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a…

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How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference…

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As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how…

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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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Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness…

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The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or…

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It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are…

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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don't feel that…

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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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