A day without sunshine is like tea without sugar.

are using the word practice here in a special way. It does not mean a rehearsal or a perfecting of some skill so that we can put it to use at some other time. In the meditative context, practice means “being in the present on purpose.” The means and the end of meditation are really the same. We are not trying to get somewhere else, only working

It is not that mindfulness is the “answer” to all life’s problems. Rather, it is that all life’s problems can be seen more clearly through the lens of a clear mind.

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

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me…. We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.

Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complementary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least as wonderful and as powerful, if not more so, than thinking.

Everything is related to everything else and, in a way, simultaneously contains everything else and is contained by everything else. What is more, everything is in flux.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

Rather, it is bearing in mind what is most important to you so that it is not lost or betrayed in the heat and reactivity of a particular moment.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Written By Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Written By Jon Kabat-Zinn

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