Education reform Quote by Patricia A. Jennings

“The first time a meditation teacher encouraged me to practice mindfulness—which”

— Sharon Salzberg

“To plant the seed of mindfulness firmly in your life, set the intention to practice mindful breathing daily.”

— Carmel Sheridan

“Rather than simply training our children’s minds to absorb and regurgitate facts so that they can do well on standardized tests, mindfulness has the…

— Patricia A. Jennings

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

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The most widely studied mindfulness-based intervention is Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (or MBSR), developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Center for Mindfulness (Kabat-Zinn, 2009).”

— Patricia A. Jennings

“Meditation teaches one to be mindful.”

— Sarah Rowland

“Mindfulness could also be described as "heartfulness" because it is really about a compassionate awareness.”

— J. Mark G. Williams

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“She nailed the method for applying mindfulness in acute situations, albeit with a somewhat dopey acronym: RAIN. R: recognize A: allow I: investigate N:…

— Dan Harris

“An awareness of alternatives at the early stages of learning a skill gives a conditional quality to the learning, which, again, increases mindfulness.”

— Ellen J. Langer

Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn