22 quotes
"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