There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need… — 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
Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once… — 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
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
There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
It’s interesting to look at your children as line-in Zen masters who can put their finger on places where you’re resistant, or… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or… — 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
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
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of… — 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
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
When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different… — 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
The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an… — 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
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
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's… — 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
