Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another. — 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
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
“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
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 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
Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we… — 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
"Resting in awareness" is one of those phrases used a lot by people who practice mindfulness. But when I tried to do… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“[I]t is useful at times to admit to yourself that you don't know your way and to be open to help from… — 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
“[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
The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices… — 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
“The next time you feel a sense of dissatisfaction, of something being missing or not quite right, turn inward as an experiment.… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a way to rebalance ourselves. Instead of being lost in thought, or caught up in emotional upheaval, we can tip… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain… — 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… — 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
“we are simply inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“The challenge of mindfulness is to work with the very circumstances that you find yourself in - no matter how unpleasant, how… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“[R]emain open to not knowing, perhaps allowing yourself to come to the point of admitting, "I don't know," and then experimenting with… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing… — 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
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
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
“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
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
“dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
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
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
“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
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
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them… Without knowing it, we are… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
“In fact, even if distraction does alleviate your pain or help to cope with it some of the time, bringing mindfulness to it can… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
![“[I]t is useful at times to admit to yourself that you don't know your way and to be open to help from unexpected places. Doing that makes available to you inner and outer energies and allies that arise out of your own soulfulness and selflessness. [...] [G]etting caught up in the normal human…” quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/131/jon-kabat-zinn-1327_mindfulness_i-t-is-useful-at-times-to-admit-to-yours_3054004.jpg)
![“[L]ive life as if each moment was important, as if each moment counted and could be worked with, even if it was a moment of pain, sadness, despair, or fear. This "work" involves above all the regular, disciplined practice of moment-to-moment awareness or mindfulness, the complete "owning" of each…” quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/jon-kabat-zinn-1327_awareness_l-ive-life-as-if-each-moment-was-importa_882658.jpg)
![“[R]emain open to not knowing, perhaps allowing yourself to come to the point of admitting, "I don't know," and then experimenting with relaxing a bit into this not knowing instead of condemning yourself for it. After all, in this moment, it may be an accurate statement of how things are for you.” quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/016/jon-kabat-zinn-1327_knowing_r-emain-open-to-not-knowing-perhaps-allo_1199909.png)
