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Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

"All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Awareness

"All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. "

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Awareness

"The little things? The little moments? They aren't little."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Awareness

"As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Hope

"All the suffering, stress and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Self-awareness

"The perfect moment is this one."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Presence

"It's not a matter of letting go, you would if you could. Instead of 'Let it go' we should probably say 'Let it be'."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

"The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

"Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

"Breathe and let be."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

"Stress is like a wave. It comes and goes. We can't stop the waves, but we can learn to surf them."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

"The only way to deal with stress is to accept it, embrace it, and work with it."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

"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."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

"Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

"Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

"Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

"Observe without judgement; peace lies there."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

"It's not a matter of letting go, you would if you could. Instead of ‘Let it go’ we should probably say ‘Let it be’."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

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

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Adaptation

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

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Adaptation

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

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Adaptation

"Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Empathy