"Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your……" — Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy."
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110 Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing…
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to…
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Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
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No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening…
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When people say "Let it go," what they really mean is "Get over it," and that's not a helpful thing…
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It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that…
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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,…
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Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from…
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