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Jon Kabat-Zinn

(1944) Molecular Biologist

252 quotes in 1008 categories

Jon Kabat-Zinn’s voice threads through more than two hundred quotes, offering a steady guide to living with awareness. Whether you’re new to meditation or have practiced for years, his observations on the body‑mind connection and the art of being present provide practical wisdom that feels both grounded and inviting.

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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

“you be aware of this as you practice?”

Aware

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“Breathe and let be.”

Breathe

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In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.

Asian

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

Dwell

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I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

Following

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Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?

Comfortable

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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

Attention

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

Arriving

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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

And love

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“Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.”

Awareness

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Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of…

Distract

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Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm…

Aspect

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“This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that are causing you to suffer.”

Education

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“comes up with. This is the flavor of true intentionality and inner discipline. You do it simply”

Discipline

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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.

Doing

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It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.

Animals

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From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

Every moment

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See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than…

Clinging

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"What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise,…

Asks

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I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to…

Along

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The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or…

Alive

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It is a form of violence, to not see a being for who he or she really is. You think, "Oh, that's…

Aspiration

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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…

Being me

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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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“[M]indfulness does not involve trying to get anywhere or feel anything special. Rather it involves allowing yourself to be where you already…

Feel

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Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a…

Animal

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“Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will…

Acceptance

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“The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and to let go…

Effort

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“From the perspective of the consciousness disciplines, our ordinary state of waking consciousness is severely suboptimal. Rather than contradicting the Western paradigm,…

Discipline

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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…

Deserving

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It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are…

Able

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“To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out…

Acceptance

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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…

Animal

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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…

Attending

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It's okay that the mind drifts away but you just bring it back.

Mind

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

Inspiring

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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

Affectionate

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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Awake

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“TRY: Asking yourself in this moment, “Am I awake?,” “Where is my mind right now?”

Awake

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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

Awareness

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Jon Kabat-Zinn by topic

Mindfulness (67) Meditation (67) Time (66) Life (48) Mental health (42) Moments (33) Psychology (27) Awareness (27) Way (26) Mind (22) Practice (19) Attention (19) Knowledge (18) Ifs (15) Thinking (14) Present moment (14) Mean (14) May (14) Focus (14) People (13) Feels (13) Pay attention (12) Love (12) Wisdom (11) Spirituality (11)