You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. Jon Kabat-Zinn More Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn More Quotes From Jon Kabat-Zinn 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 rocks views thinking Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another. Jon Kabat-Zinn awareness meditation mind Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives. Jon Kabat-Zinn missing beautiful meaningful Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard. Jon Kabat-Zinn soil pushing meditation Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions. Jon Kabat-Zinn smart phones self Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us. Jon Kabat-Zinn meditation uplifting mean If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles. Jon Kabat-Zinn circles may life 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 purpose mind attention Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it. Jon Kabat-Zinn lists important You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention. Jon Kabat-Zinn woven wise thinking There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else. Jon Kabat-Zinn moments trying Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else. Jon Kabat-Zinn mindfulness For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently. Jon Kabat-Zinn journey adventure life The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention. Jon Kabat-Zinn mindfulness missing attention See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance Jon Kabat-Zinn acceptance self blessing If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody's having conversations anymore. They're sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it. Jon Kabat-Zinn brain people It's okay that the mind drifts away but you just bring it back. Jon Kabat-Zinn okay mind "Resting in awareness" is one of those phrases used a lot by people who practice mindfulness. But when I tried to do it, it wasn't restful and I worried I wasn't doing it right. I kept thinking about work. Jon Kabat-Zinn mindfulness people thinking People say things that get you ramped up. I find myself, as my body clenches up when somebody says something that I know is wrong or I wanna catch them in a lie or whatever, that just, "Calm down. When it's your turn, you make your point." Jon Kabat-Zinn calm lying people The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing. Jon Kabat-Zinn ancient walking people
