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> [Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle sounds—in your body, in the room, in the building, and outside.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-chozen-bays/several-times-a-day-stop-and-just-listen-open-your-hearing-360/)

[Jan Chozen Bays](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-chozen-bays/)

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## More by Jan Chozen Bays

> [Resting in this moment, we have no age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-chozen-bays/resting-in-this-moment-we-have-no-age/)

[Jan Chozen Bays](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-chozen-bays/)

> [We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-chozen-bays/we-wouldn-t-pay-to-rent-and-watch-the-same-painful-movie-two-hundred/)

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> [Mindful eating is a way to become reacquainted with the guidance of our internal nutritionist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-chozen-bays/mindful-eating-is-a-way-to-become-reacquainted-with-the-guidance-of/)

[Jan Chozen Bays](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-chozen-bays/)

> [Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-chozen-bays/several-times-a-day-stop-and-just-listen-open-your-hearing-360/)

[Jan Chozen Bays](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-chozen-bays/)

> [When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-chozen-bays/when-you-are-unhappy-discover-what-you-are-clinging-to-and-let-it-go/)

[Jan Chozen Bays](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-chozen-bays/)

> [Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-chozen-bays/mindfulness-is-deliberately-paying-full-attention-to-what-is/)

[Jan Chozen Bays](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-chozen-bays/)

> [“Kind words are a gift. They create wealth in the heart.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-chozen-bays/kind-words-are-a-gift-they-create-wealth-in-the-heart/)

[Jan Chozen Bays](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-chozen-bays/)

> [“Anxiety is the subtle and pervasive destroyer of our happiness. It depends on thoughts of past and future. It cannot exist in the present.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-chozen-bays/anxiety-is-the-subtle-and-pervasive-destroyer-of-our-happiness-it/)

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> [If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-chozen-bays/if-we-practice-stepping-into-the-unknown-moment-by-moment-hour-by/)

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> [Except that it’s not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. It’s a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic depends upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-chozen-bays/except-that-it-s-not-really-now-that-the-inner-critic-attacks-it-s-a/)

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> [The problem is not in the food... The problem lies in the mind. It lies in our lack of awareness of the messages coming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-chozen-bays/the-problem-is-not-in-the-food-the-problem-lies-in-the-mind-it-lies/)

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