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Mindfulness opens us up to the possibility of being fully human as we are, and of expressing the humane in our way of being. Mindlessness de facto closes us up and denies us the fullness of our being alive. This book may on the surface appear to be merely another offering in the genre of daily readings. But deep within these 108 selections lie messages of profound wisdom in a contemporary and practical form that can lead to both healing and transformation. We so urgently need to rotate in consciousness in order to safeguard what precious sanity is available to us on this planet. How we carry ourselves will determine the direction the world takes because, in a very real way, we are the world we inhabit. Our world is continuously being shaped by our participation in everything around us and within us through mindfulness. This is the great work of awareness. Welcome to the threshold
to the fullness of arriving at your own door!
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First published January 1, 2007
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About the author
Jon Kabat-Zinn
206 books2,082 followersJon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in various venues around the world. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Salvador Luria.
He is the author of numerous scientific papers on the clinical applications of mindfulness in medicine and health care, and of a number of books for the lay public: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (Delta, 1991); Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Hyperion, 1994); Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness (Hyperion, 2005); and Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness (Hyperion, 2007). He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (Hyperion, 1997); and with Williams, Teasdale, and Segal, of The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Guilford, 2007). Overall, his books have been translated into over 30 languages.
His major research interests have focused on mind/body interactions for healing, clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training, the effects of MBSR on the brain, on the immune system, and on healthy emotional expression while under stress; on healing (skin clearing rates) in people with psoriasis; on patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation; with prison inmates and staff; in multicultural settings; and on stress in various corporate settings and work environments. His work in the Stress Reduction Clinic was featured in Bill Moyers’ PBS Special, “Healing and the Mind” and in the book of the same title, as well as on Good Morning America, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and NPR. It has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine, and psychology, health care and hospitals, schools, corporations, the legal profession, prisons, and professional sports.
He has trained groups of CEOs, judges, members of the clergy, and Olympic athletes (the 1984 Olympic Men’s Rowing Team) and congressional staff in mindfulness. The Stress Reduction Clinic has served as the model for mindfulness-based clinical intervention programs at over 200 medical centers and clinics nation-wide and abroad.
Dr. Kabat-Zinn has received numerous awards over the span of his career. He is a founding fellow of the Fetzer Institute, and a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He received the Interface Foundation Career Achievement Award, and the New York Open Center’s Tenth Year Anniversary Achievement in Medicine and Health Award (1994); the Art, Science, and Soul of Healing Award from the Institute for Health and Healing, California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco (1998); the 2nd Annual Trailblazer Award for “pioneering work in the field of integrative medicine” from the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, California (2001); the Distinguished Friend Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (2005), and an Inaugural Pioneer in Integrative Medicine Award from the Bravewell Philanthropic Collaborative for Integrative Medicine (2007).
He is the founding convener of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, and serves on the Board of the Mind and Life Institute, a group that organizes dialogues between the Dalai Lama and Western scientists to promote deeper understanding of different ways of knowing and probing the nature of mind, emotions, and reality. He was co-program chair of the 2005 Mind and Life Dialogue: The Clinical Appl
He is the author of numerous scientific papers on the clinical applications of mindfulness in medicine and health care, and of a number of books for the lay public: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (Delta, 1991); Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Hyperion, 1994); Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness (Hyperion, 2005); and Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness (Hyperion, 2007). He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (Hyperion, 1997); and with Williams, Teasdale, and Segal, of The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Guilford, 2007). Overall, his books have been translated into over 30 languages.
His major research interests have focused on mind/body interactions for healing, clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training, the effects of MBSR on the brain, on the immune system, and on healthy emotional expression while under stress; on healing (skin clearing rates) in people with psoriasis; on patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation; with prison inmates and staff; in multicultural settings; and on stress in various corporate settings and work environments. His work in the Stress Reduction Clinic was featured in Bill Moyers’ PBS Special, “Healing and the Mind” and in the book of the same title, as well as on Good Morning America, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and NPR. It has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine, and psychology, health care and hospitals, schools, corporations, the legal profession, prisons, and professional sports.
He has trained groups of CEOs, judges, members of the clergy, and Olympic athletes (the 1984 Olympic Men’s Rowing Team) and congressional staff in mindfulness. The Stress Reduction Clinic has served as the model for mindfulness-based clinical intervention programs at over 200 medical centers and clinics nation-wide and abroad.
Dr. Kabat-Zinn has received numerous awards over the span of his career. He is a founding fellow of the Fetzer Institute, and a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He received the Interface Foundation Career Achievement Award, and the New York Open Center’s Tenth Year Anniversary Achievement in Medicine and Health Award (1994); the Art, Science, and Soul of Healing Award from the Institute for Health and Healing, California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco (1998); the 2nd Annual Trailblazer Award for “pioneering work in the field of integrative medicine” from the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, California (2001); the Distinguished Friend Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (2005), and an Inaugural Pioneer in Integrative Medicine Award from the Bravewell Philanthropic Collaborative for Integrative Medicine (2007).
He is the founding convener of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, and serves on the Board of the Mind and Life Institute, a group that organizes dialogues between the Dalai Lama and Western scientists to promote deeper understanding of different ways of knowing and probing the nature of mind, emotions, and reality. He was co-program chair of the 2005 Mind and Life Dialogue: The Clinical Appl
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December 30, 20254th read:
A delightful book to return to - especially important for me when I need reminding of how to experience/express
the best parts of myself.
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Upon yet another reading, this book offers even more delights and insights. It is an epigrammatic and extremely helpful book -- it allows readers many ways to recenter and remember: it is here, it is here, it is here.
"Obstacles to practice are infinite. Yet all of them turn into allies when they are embraced in awareness. They can feed the practice, rather than impede it, if we recognize them for what they are and allow them to simply be part of the nowscape because, wonder of wonders, they already are." (Jon Kabat-Zinn) This is a wonderful little book with much insight in mindfulness/heartfulness as verbs, not just abstract nouns.
A delightful book to return to - especially important for me when I need reminding of how to experience/express
the best parts of myself.
--
Upon yet another reading, this book offers even more delights and insights. It is an epigrammatic and extremely helpful book -- it allows readers many ways to recenter and remember: it is here, it is here, it is here.
"Obstacles to practice are infinite. Yet all of them turn into allies when they are embraced in awareness. They can feed the practice, rather than impede it, if we recognize them for what they are and allow them to simply be part of the nowscape because, wonder of wonders, they already are." (Jon Kabat-Zinn) This is a wonderful little book with much insight in mindfulness/heartfulness as verbs, not just abstract nouns.
May 30, 2017
Short sentences to make you "stay in the moment", or trying to get there at last. It was ok but it is just another book on mindfulness in my opinion, even if it is written by the master.
Brevi frasi per fare sí che si viva il momento, o quanto meno ci si provi. Non era male pur se é l'ennesimo libro sulla Mindfulness, questo peró lo ha scritto il maestro.
Brevi frasi per fare sí che si viva il momento, o quanto meno ci si provi. Non era male pur se é l'ennesimo libro sulla Mindfulness, questo peró lo ha scritto il maestro.
December 27, 2017
It is so important nowadays to stay in focus
September 4, 2009
Kabat-Zinn is credited with introducing the concept of mindfulness to mainstream medicine and society. This little gem represents a best-of collection of quotes from his later work. A coffee-table book compiled from Jon Kabat-Zinn's "Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness", "Arriving at Your Own Door" highlights Kabat-Zinn's ability to put into words concepts which are often difficult to absorb.
Kabat-Zinn has a gift for describing the process of mindful awareness and making the concepts accessible. For anyone familiar with mindfulness or awareness meditation, this book is a great refresher of key concepts. It makes a great tool for daily meditation, reviewing one concept each day, or you can even turn to a random page for a message for the moment.
For anyone new to the concepts of mindful awareness, this book will seem too sparse and disjointed to glean any useful information. Lacking further exposition and development of the concepts that are introduced, a novice will have problems finding any meat on these bones.
I based my rating from the perspective of a reader unfamiliar or new to the concepts of mindfulness. Having said that, I feel this book would make a great companion to the larger work from which it was compiled.
Kabat-Zinn has a gift for describing the process of mindful awareness and making the concepts accessible. For anyone familiar with mindfulness or awareness meditation, this book is a great refresher of key concepts. It makes a great tool for daily meditation, reviewing one concept each day, or you can even turn to a random page for a message for the moment.
For anyone new to the concepts of mindful awareness, this book will seem too sparse and disjointed to glean any useful information. Lacking further exposition and development of the concepts that are introduced, a novice will have problems finding any meat on these bones.
I based my rating from the perspective of a reader unfamiliar or new to the concepts of mindfulness. Having said that, I feel this book would make a great companion to the larger work from which it was compiled.
October 14, 2012
"Arriving at your own Door" is wonderful because you can read it cover to cover or just open to any page and read the wisdom off the page. Each quote has a message that helps one reflect on the truisms we all share. The author of the book Jon Kabat-Zinn compiled a list of quotes from others to go with his mindfulness lessons.One such quote inserted is a quote from Marcel Proust, "The true journey of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having fresh eyes."
December 3, 2022
My introduction to this author was "Full Catastrophe Living," which I highly recommend as a full tutorial and handbook on how to deal with stress in your life. This is a much shorter book, meant for those of us who could use a simpler introduction, or a quick refresher, about how to live in this moment in 108 short lessons. I appreciated the reminder.
My two favorite lessons were "Democracy" and "Interconnectedness." He stated perfectly one of my operating principles:
"We humans are all intimately interconnected. How we treat each other matters to the health and well-being, perhaps even the survival, of us all as a species, not in some vague future, but in this very moment."
It is very hard to do minute by minute, and yet this is the very thing we must do. Minute by minute.
My two favorite lessons were "Democracy" and "Interconnectedness." He stated perfectly one of my operating principles:
"We humans are all intimately interconnected. How we treat each other matters to the health and well-being, perhaps even the survival, of us all as a species, not in some vague future, but in this very moment."
It is very hard to do minute by minute, and yet this is the very thing we must do. Minute by minute.
April 9, 2022
Jon Kabat-Zinn is an expert on mindfulness and meditation. This book is a compilation of some of his writings.
"The bell of mindfulness tolls in each moment, inviting us to come to our senses, reminding us that we can wakeup to our lives, NOW, while we have them to live."
"What is required is nothing special, simply that we start paying attention and wake up to things as they are. All else will follow."
"The last frontier for us is not the oceans, nor outer space, as interesting and enticing as they may be. The last and most important and most urgent frontier is the human mind. It is knowing ourselves, and most importantly, from the inside! The last frontier is our own consciousness."
"The bell of mindfulness tolls in each moment, inviting us to come to our senses, reminding us that we can wakeup to our lives, NOW, while we have them to live."
"What is required is nothing special, simply that we start paying attention and wake up to things as they are. All else will follow."
"The last frontier for us is not the oceans, nor outer space, as interesting and enticing as they may be. The last and most important and most urgent frontier is the human mind. It is knowing ourselves, and most importantly, from the inside! The last frontier is our own consciousness."
February 13, 2018
Une condensé de pensées flash, l'essence de la philosophie de la pleine conscience. Beaucoup de réflexions très profondes et pourtant vraies. Il m'a fallu relire plusieurs fois certains passages pour m'imprégner pleinement des idées sous-jacentes. Un livre à lire et relire, et surtout à pratiquer au quotidien.
February 5, 2019
Thought a slightly unorthodox book on Mindfulness but still provides ample of practical wisdom and food for reflection through the crisp 108 lessons. Each lesson very succinctly provides isight into the tenets of mindful living. The book introduces many new concepts (at least for me) that make lots of sense .
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October 20, 2017
Lots of good things to think about and saying that need some thinking over.
April 7, 2018
While many of the "lessons" appeared repetitive, one lesson is certain: Life simply unfolds - be aware and be present to experience it.
November 18, 2018
i love this book . Short quotes , texts . i like to read it sometimes
March 4, 2021
daily passages that are calming to the soul...it was just what i needed.
December 28, 2021
Alors celui-ci est un petit bouquin qui change complètement la perspective, et par conséquent change toute une vie.
December 20, 2023
Thank you Jon Kabat-Zinn as always.
March 9, 2024
Fantastic. Lots of great quotes and food for thought moments.
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March 18, 2025Lovely little book. My only complaint as an older-50 reader is the font was faint on sage green pages and hard to read.
May 6, 2017
My third book of Jon Kabat-Zinn, a professor of Medicine Emeritus and creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Kabat-Zinn was a student of Buddhist teachers such as Thich Nhat Hanh and Zen Master Seung Sahn and a founding member of Cambridge Zen Center; well, mindfulness as slogans is a paradox and I utterly prefer the long version of mindfulness instead. I would recommend reading the full book versions of Kabat-Zinn's work.
December 29, 2016
Lovely easy-read for the bedside-table.
I am a psychologist and work with mindfulness daily, and this was a nice little reminder about the essential points about going through life in the best possible, "mindful" way.
Some of the book's best points - which many of the "lessons" depict - call attention to two critical things: 1. how the present is a point of opportunity, of branching ramification, and 2. how our very own understanding about our pain affects the amount of pain and the mastering thereof.
I am a psychologist and work with mindfulness daily, and this was a nice little reminder about the essential points about going through life in the best possible, "mindful" way.
Some of the book's best points - which many of the "lessons" depict - call attention to two critical things: 1. how the present is a point of opportunity, of branching ramification, and 2. how our very own understanding about our pain affects the amount of pain and the mastering thereof.
January 25, 2013
What I taught? Well: I absolutely prefer the LONG version of mindfulness, in my opinion mindfulness as slogans is a paradox. Mindfulness is all about depth - not skimming the surface. There is lots of interesting stuff in this book, but I would recommend reading or listening to full book versions of Kabat-Zinn's work.
August 8, 2016
Ce livre contient 108 textes à méditer accompagnées du CD. Je pense qu'il convient mieux à quelqu'un déjà initié à la méditation que moi car il ne propose pas d'aide à la méditation. J'ai beaucoup aimé le CD et je compte relire ce livre lorsque j'aurai mieux appréhendé le concept même de la méditation.
March 16, 2011
As a daily reminder to attend to the present moment rather than being driven by the regrets of yesterday or the "awfulizing" of future events, this was a helpful resource. The simple one or two line reminders were concise and powerful.
August 19, 2015
The book's title is a little misleading in the sense that it sounds like if you read this book you may experience mindfulness, but it's more for someone who has already been practicing this "technique" and perhaps is looking for something a bit deeper.
September 7, 2016
I was disappointed because I never would have thought that taken out of context the author's quotes would sound so banal and commonplace. In this abbreviated style, his teachings (and I am really a fan) just don't get across at all.
January 19, 2010
Some good insights and ideas on the practice of mindfulness.
January 24, 2012
These kinds of books are hard for me to read & remember. Lots of great thoughts, they just don't stay with me.
August 17, 2013
I think I might like to read the book this is culled from.
February 3, 2014
I love the opening poem and I enjoyed reading these "lessons" but my drive to finish probably hampered my ability to understand.
January 22, 2016
Affirmations and short paragraphs to read and mediate on.
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