Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“It is not that mindfulness is the “answer” to all life’s problems. Rather, it is that all life’s problems can be seen… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Breathe and let be. [...] [G]ive yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to… — 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
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Awareness requires only that we pay attention and see things as they are. It doesn't require that we change anything.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“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 often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all… — 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
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment.… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“There can be no resolution leading to growth until the present situation has been faced completely and you have opened to it… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“It's not that God, the environment, and other people cannot help us to be happy or find satisfaction. It's just that our… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“In this regard, cultivating mindfulness is not unlike the process of eating. It would be absurd to propose that someone else eat… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Allow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling. [...] Let go of the labels. Just feel what you are feeling, all the… — 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… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“[L]ive life as if each moment was important, as if each moment counted and could be worked with, even if it was… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“The virtues of getting up early have nothing to do with cramming more hours of busyness and industry into one's day. Just… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“In fact, even if distraction does alleviate your pain or help to cope with it some of the time, bringing mindfulness to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“As much as I can, I avoid using the word "spiritual" altogether. I find it neither useful nor necessary nor appropriate in… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body,… — 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
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years.… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Through it all, we attempt to bring balance to the present moment, understanding that in patience lies wisdom, knowing that what will… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“By grounding yourself in mindfulness early in the morning, you are reminding yourself that things are always changing, that good and bad… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full… — 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
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