"You can't stop the waves, but you can…" — Jon Kabat-Zinn
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."
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110 Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn has 110 quotes on this site.
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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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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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