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Life Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

48 Life quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

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A tiny moment, like a falling leaf, can hold huge meaning. Missing the little things means missing the beautiful and meaningful parts of our lives. Letting go of resistance, watching without trying to change, lets us see others clearly and act with kindness.

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You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

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

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The real meditation is how you live your life.

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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.

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Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are…

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To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part…

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If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If…

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Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them… Without knowing it,…

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Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our…

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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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For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes…

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Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of…

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Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full…

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“Life only unfolds in moments. The healing power of mindfulness lies in living each of those moments as fully as we can,…

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Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else,…

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Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it's also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of…

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You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would…

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“There are no drugs that will make you immune to stress or to pain or that will by themselves magically solve your…

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The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic…

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Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody…

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Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are…

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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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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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“not get caught in their habitual patterning, to see thoughts for what they are, impersonal events, and instead be the knowing that…

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“The habit of ignoring our present moments in favor of others yet to come leads directly to a pervasive lack of awareness…

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“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences…

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“Mindfulness has to do with waking up and living in harmony with oneself and with the world. It is examining who we…

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“[L]ive life as if each moment was important, as if each moment counted and could be worked with, even if it was…

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“There is really no natural limit to the practice of loving kindness in meditation or in one’s life. It is an ongoing,…

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“When it comes right down to it, the challenge of mindfulness is to realize that “this is it” Right now is my…

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Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your…

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Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

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“It is not that mindfulness is the “answer” to all life’s problems. Rather, it is that all life’s problems can be seen…

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The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means…

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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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If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean…

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You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never…

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Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of…

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There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from…

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Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us…

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

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…

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

“One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your…

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…

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

Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice.

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

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

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

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…

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum…

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them… Without knowing it, we are…

“In fact, even if distraction does alleviate your pain or help to cope with it some of the time, bringing mindfulness to it can…