“Life only unfolds in moments. The healing power of mindfulness lies in living each of those moments as fully as we can,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“The mind states of liking and disliking can take up permanent residency in us, unconsciously feeding addictive behaviors in all domains of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“There are no drugs that will make you immune to stress or to pain or that will by themselves magically solve your… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“By taking a few moments to “die on purpose” to the rush of time while you are still living, you free yourself… — 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 has to do with waking up and living in harmony with oneself and with the world. It is examining who we… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody… — 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
“Meditation is more rightly thought of as a “Way” than as a technique. It is a Way of being, a Way of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“When it comes right down to it, the challenge of mindfulness is to realize that “this is it” Right now is my… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part… — 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
“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
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don't feel that… — 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 Image
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 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 sustaining that… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
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 Image
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
