292 Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Le miracle de la succession des saisons est dans notre souffle; nos parents et nos enfants sont contenus dans notre souffle; notre esprit et notre corps sont notre souffle.

Cierpliwość to rodzaj mądrości. Dowodzi, że rozumiemy i akceptujemy fakt, iż czasami sprawy muszą się rozwijać we własnym tempie. Dzieci próbują czasem pomóc motylowi wydostać się z kokonu, rozbijając go. Zwykle motyl nie wychodzi na tym dobrze. Każdy dorosły wie, że motyl wylatuje z kokonu, dopiero kiedy nadejdzie właściwy czas i nie można tego przyspieszyć.

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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

"What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.

In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation - to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.