"Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what……" — Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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110 Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn has 110 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing…
As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill…
The real meditation is how you live your life.
When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek…
Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to…
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening…
When people say "Let it go," what they really mean is "Get over it," and that's not a helpful thing…
It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that…
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment,…
Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from…

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More Awake Quotes

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It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. — Roger Babson
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the… — Honore de Balzac
I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me… — Emmanuelle Beart
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. — Lewis Black
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. — Erma Bombeck
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself… — Dale Carnegie
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In… — Marc Chagall
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's… — Harlan Coben
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we… — Dan Wakefield

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