Expression Quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Zen has an expression, "nothing special." When you understand "nothing special," you realize that everything is special. Everything's special and nothing's special. Everything's spiritual and nothing's spiritual. It's how you see, it's what eyes you're looking through, that matters.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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