Jon Kabat Zinn Quotes

Biography: Jon Kabat-Zinn is known for pioneering the integration of mindfulness ... more Biography: Jon Kabat-Zinn is known for pioneering the integration of mindfulness meditation into mainstream medicine and stress reduction. He founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program and authored numerous books on mindfulness. Kabat-Zinn's work has significantly impacted mental health practices worldwide. less

"It's not really about the yoga. It’s about your life. It's about the waking up to your own inner work and life, cultivating always a beginner's mind.""Mindfulness is not just about meditation, it's about living in a way that respects and engages with reality.""When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.""You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret …is to press play.""There are no mistakes, only opportunities for learning.""Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally.""Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness.""Life only unfolds in moments.""Too much of our lives takes place in the head, in memory or imagination, in speculation, in projection, in abstraction.""Meditation is the process of learning to meet your thoughts and feelings with interest and kindness rather than fear and self-judgment.""Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at its core is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else.""Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.""Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.""We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up to find the true light.""Healing comes out of the practice itself, when we are able to be with ourselves.""The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.""Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous.""You make problem-solving way harder when you're disconnected from the problem and from yourself.""Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.""We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now."

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