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  • #1
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • #2
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • #3
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #4
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Maybe the fear is that
    we are less than
    we think we are,
    when the
    actuality of it
    is that we are much much more.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness

  • #5
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “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, Wherever You Go, There You Are

  • #6
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Wherever you go, there you are”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • #7
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #8
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

  • #9
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “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.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #10
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “You make problem, you have problem”
    Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness Meditation

  • #11
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #12
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “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?”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #13
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “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?”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • #14
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #15
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are



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