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Jon Kabat-Zinn

(1944) Molecular Biologist

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Jon Kabat-Zinn is a molecular biologist.

Quick Facts About Jon Kabat-Zinn

Born: June 5, 1944
Profession: Molecular Biologist

About Jon Kabat-Zinn

[Wikidata] American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine... | [Wikipedia] Jon Kabat-Zinn is an American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Kabat-Zinn was a student of Zen Buddhist teachers such as Philip Kapleau

Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

Accumulation

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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…

Beautiful

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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…

Attention

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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

Attention

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

Ask yourself

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I thought it was a stroke of genius that Hans Selye used the word stress, because it's true that if you don't…

Assembly line

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

Serenity

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

Foundation

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

Inspiring

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

Arriving

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

Time

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

Acceptance

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

Art

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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,…

Ask yourself

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

Learning

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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

Awareness

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The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to…

Awareness

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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their…

Accepting

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“Live with nature In the present Above time”

Nature

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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…

Eye

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Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving…

Farming

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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.

Letting go

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Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so…

Mean

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“you be aware of this as you practice?”

Knowledge

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One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions…

Body

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Jon Kabat-Zinn by topic

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