Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

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  You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

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  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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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 to say. It's not a matter of letting go - you would if you could. Instead of "Let it go," we should probably say "Let it be"; this recognizes that the mind won't let go and the problem may not go away, and it allows you to form a healthier relationship with what's bothering you.

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  Letting Go, Mean, Bothering You

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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, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.

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  Mean, Mindfulness, Attention

  Myla Kabat-zinn, Jon Kabat-Zinn (1998). “Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting”, Hyperion

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• It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

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  Down And, Quiet, Acts Of Love

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

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  Care, Take Care

  Twitter post from Oct 06, 2014

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• Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

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  Mean, Mindfulness, Attention

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

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  Patience, Facts, Sometimes

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.85, Bantam

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• As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel. But if you hope to mobilize your inner capacities for growth and for healing and to take charge in your life on a new level, a certain kind of effort and energy on your part will be required.... It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer.

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  Pain, Stress, Moving

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• The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

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  Life, Inspiring, Simplicity

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• The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

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  Spiritual, Feelings, Events

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• Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

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  Struggle, Healing, Thinking

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.374, Hachette UK

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• Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

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  Powerful, Healing, Mindfulness

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• Wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that's what you've wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that's what's on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important question is, "how are you going to handle it?"
  .... Like it or not, this moment is all we really have to work with.

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  Thinking, Wind, Mind

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2016). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's the 'the truth,' then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.

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  Life Changing, Believe, Reality

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.134, Bantam

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• All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

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  Stress, Addiction, Suffering

  "Mindfulness In the Modern World". Interview with Stephan Rechtschaffen, www.eomega.org. February 24, 2012.

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• The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

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  Real, Meditation Practice, Moments

  "Jon Kabat-Zinn: ‘The Real Meditation Practice Is How We Live Our Lives From Moment To Moment’" By Amanda L. Chan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

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  Life, Journey, Honor

  "Wherever You Go, There You Are". Book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1994.

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• No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

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  Responsibility, Listening, Body

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.173, Bantam

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• You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

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  Life, Live In The Moment, Alive

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• When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

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  Interesting, Boredom, Attention

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• Once in awhile throughout the day...let go into full acceptance of the present moment, including how you are feeling and what you perceive to be happening... Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are. Then, when you're ready, move in the direction your heart tells you to go, mindfully and with resolution.

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  Letting Go, Moving, Heart

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• If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

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  Life, Spiritual, Fear

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.521, Bantam

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• Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

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  Life, Meditation Practice, Trying

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

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  Life, Trying, Watches

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Mindfulness is a way to rebalance ourselves. Instead of being lost in thought, or caught up in emotional upheaval, we can tip the scale in the direction of greater equanimity, clarity, wisdom, and self-compassion by actually learning how to inhabit that other dimension of our being.

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  Emotional, Mindfulness, Clarity

  Source: eomega.org

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