Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes - Page 6

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• Acknowledging that sometimes, often at very crucial times, you really have no idea where you are going or even where the path lies. A the same time, you can very well know something about where you are now (even if it is knowing that you are lost, confused, enraged or without hope).

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  Confused, Lying, Ideas

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

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• Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

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  Powerful, Buddhism, Mindfulness

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• From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

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  Perspective, Meditation, Special

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

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• "Resting in awareness" is one of those phrases used a lot by people who practice mindfulness. But when I tried to do it, it wasn't restful and I worried I wasn't doing it right. I kept thinking about work.

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  Thinking, People, Mindfulness

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Societal transformation isn't going to happen in one month, one year, or even one lifetime. But we see it happen person by person in front of us, and we don't have to worry about the future if we're taking care of the present. In some sense, that's the best insurance policy we can have.

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  Worry, Care, Transformation

  Source: eomega.org

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• Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice.

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  Letting Go, Practice, Generosity

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

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• It’s interesting to look at your children as line-in Zen masters who can put their finger on places where you’re resistant, or thinking narrowly, in ways noone else can. You can either lose your mind and your authenticity in the process of reacting to all that stuff, or you can use it as the perfect opportunity to grow and nourish your children by attending to what is deepest and best in them and in yourself.

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  Children, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

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  Independent, Yesterday, Discipline

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

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• Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

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  Mirrors, Practice, Mind

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

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• There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment.

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  Yoga, Body, Care

  "Jon Kabat-Zinn on Living Mindfuly". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2010.

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• The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

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  Funny Things, Stopping, Miscellaneous

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

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• In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.

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  Heart, Mind, Asian

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness”, p.2, Hachette UK

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• A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of spiritual “truth.”

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  Spiritual, Views, People

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

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• The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing that kind of spiritual training. It's as much a potential door into enlightenment as anything else.

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  Mom, Spiritual, Real

  "Mindful Parenting". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 1998.

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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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  Meditation, Mind, Awareness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance

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  Acceptance, Blessing, Self

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

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• The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

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  People, Ancient, Walking

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You can bring together the body's various systems to fine tune the body and mind in order to navigate life's ups and downs in a way that minimizes stress and maximizes well-being and satisfaction.

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  Stress, Mind, Together

  Source: eomega.org

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• Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, or other historical traditions, are all different streams in the same river, different currents in the same ocean. With the long view, we can trust that the seeds that we're planting are transforming the world.

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  Ocean, Long, Historical

  Source: eomega.org

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• Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

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  Thinking, People, Special

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• The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.

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  Mind, Body, Normal

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• In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us.

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  Wise, Journey, Hiking

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.

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  Life, Animal, Unique

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

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• I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

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  New York, School, Kids

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