Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes - Page 2

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• In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Special, Realizing

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• Science is now documenting that it's not the objects of meditation that are important, it's the process of paying attention to them - the attending - that actually influences the organism in a whole range of different ways. The brain changes significantly enough to impact thought, emotion, and other biological functions. Today, people recognize that they're not going to find well-being from the outside, or from a pill; they're going to find it by looking inside. All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Stress, Addiction, People

  Source: eomega.org

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• Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Risk, Dying, Wake Up

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Important, Lists

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

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• When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Hope, Circles

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

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• Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

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  Wisdom, Military, War

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• But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

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  Commitment, Garden, Goats

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

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• Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

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  Breathing, Focus, Meditation

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• In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

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  Mindfulness, Moments, Given

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• Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mean, Simple, Simplicity

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

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• To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

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  Life, Letting Go, Giving Up

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

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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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• Zen has an expression, "nothing special." When you understand "nothing special," you realize that everything is special. Everything's special and nothing's special. Everything's spiritual and nothing's spiritual. It's how you see, it's what eyes you're looking through, that matters.

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  Spiritual, Eye, Expression

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• The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

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  Missing, Mindfulness, Attention

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• Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

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  Practice, Judgemental, Moments

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• Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Knowing, People

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

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• Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.

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  Being Yourself, Knowing, Meditation

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

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• If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody's having conversations anymore. They're sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  People, Brain

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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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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• 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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• 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 not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.

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  Meditation, Feelings, Way

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

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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.

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  Loving Life, Compassion, Giving

  "Mindfulness in the Modern World". Omega Institute interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.

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• Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

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  Arriving, Illusion, Future Time

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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.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Meditation Practice, Trying

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

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