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- “You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn.
- “You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion.
- “The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn.
- “Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.”
- You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. Jon Kabat-Zinn. Inspirational, Change, Positive.
- When people say "Let it go," what they really mean is "Get over it," and that's not a helpful thing to say. It's not a matter of letting go - you would if you could.
- Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can.
- It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself. Jon Kabat-Zinn. Down And, Quiet, Acts Of Love.
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- We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
- Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty.
- To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.
- They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win. Howard Zinn. Gun, Winning, Poet.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
- 1990
- “Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living.
- “No matter how many scars we carry from what we have gone through and suffered in the past, our intrinsic wholeness is still here: what else contains the scars?
- “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.”
- “One very important domain of our lives and experience that we tend to miss, ignore, abuse, or lose control of as a result of being in the automatic pilot mode is our own body.”
Zinn strongly disagrees. America is not one community: throughout history, different Americans have been on different sides of the fight. Zinn quotes the writer Albert Camus: in world of “victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
Mar 25, 2024 · Discover the most inspiring quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn, an influential mindfulness teacher, author, and founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society.
244,713 ratings, 4.08 average rating, 7,167 reviews. Open Preview. A People’s History of the United States Quotes Showing 1-30 of 517. “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.”. ― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States.
