Jon Kabat-Zinn quotes - page 3

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don't feel that way because of the wounds and the scars we carry from the past or because of the uncertainty of the future. It is doubtful that we came to feel undeserving on our own. We were helped to feel unworthy. We were taught it in a thousand ways when we were little, and we learned our lessons well. (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
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. View quote
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One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. View quote
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Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma. View quote
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Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent. View quote
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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. View quote
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Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions. View quote
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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). View quote
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A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of spiritual "truth.”. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else. (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
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. View quote
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