Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

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

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  Life, Inspiring, Simplicity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations.

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  Ocean, Mind, Wave

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.

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  Mind, Attention, Purpose

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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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• Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. All ethics and morality, and a sense of interconnectedness, come out of the act of paying attention.

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  Loving Life, Compassion, Giving

  Source: eomega.org

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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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• You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

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  Wise, Thinking, Woven

  "Q&A: Jon Kabat-Zinn Talks About Bringing Mindfulness Meditation to Medicine". Interview With Maia Szalavitz, healthland.time.com. January 11, 2012.

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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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• "What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.

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  Jobs, Wind, Imagination

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

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• The real meditation is how you live your life.

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  Real, Meditation, Live Your Life

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.613, Bantam

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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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• 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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• 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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