See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of ‘spiritual’ truth.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing who that is.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.

— 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

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.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Most people don’t realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

You make problem, you have problem.

— 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.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Awareness Is Not The Same As ThoughtMore Like A Vessel Which Can Hold And Contain Our Thinking.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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