« All All Quotes · Jon Kabat-Zinn's Page
All Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
- It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or…
- Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share…
- 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 thinking narrowly, in…
- So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
- Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this," and you might…
- To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and…
- Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring…
- All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you…
- When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are…
- The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the origins of medicine.…
More All Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle