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Life Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may…
- The real meditation is how you live your life.
- 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 attention…
- You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.
- Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it's also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the…
- The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing…
- Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in…
- The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch…
- 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…
- In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to…
- You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you…
- 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…
- He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
- You make problem, you have problem
- You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
- The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
- You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment…
- Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
- Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act…
- Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there…
- Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
- Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to…
- Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the…
- For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We…
- If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — 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 do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle