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You are only here now you're only alive in this moment.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Jon Kabat-Zinn
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: June 5
Molecular Biologist
Physician
Professor
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
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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.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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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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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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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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.
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In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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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