"We must be willing to encounter darkness and……" — Jon Kabat-Zinn
"We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable."
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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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As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill…
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek…
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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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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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