{"author":"Jon Kabat-Zinn","author_id":"Jon+Kabat-Zinn","total_quotes":59,"quotes":[{"text":"Through it all, we attempt to bring balance to the present moment,understanding that in patience lies wisdom,knowing that what will come next will be determined in large measure by how we are now.","author":"Jon Kabat-Zinn","tags":["mindfulness"],"id":2240,"author_id":"Jon+Kabat-Zinn"},{"text":"Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes use of thinking, honoring its value and its power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thoughts as thoughts rather than getting caught up in them in reality.","author":"Jon Kabat-Zinn","tags":["awareness","meditation","thinking-vessel"],"id":3913,"author_id":"Jon+Kabat-Zinn"},{"text":"This is it.","author":"Jon Kabat-Zinn","tags":["aceeptance","awareness","moment"],"id":8646,"author_id":"Jon+Kabat-Zinn"},{"text":"We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our minds leaves us very little respite for inner quiet. And we leave precious little room for ourselves anyway just to be, without having to run around doing things all the time. Our actions are all too frequently driven rather than undertaken in awareness, driven by those perfectly ordinary thoughts and impulses that run through the mind like a coursing river, if not a waterfall. We get caught up in the torrent and it winds up submerging our lives as it carries us to places we may not wish to go and may not even realize we are headed for.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 rather than to tyrannize us.","author":"Jon Kabat-Zinn","tags":["mindfulness","psychology"],"id":16392,"author_id":"Jon+Kabat-Zinn"},{"text":"Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.","author":"Jon Kabat-Zinn","tags":["calming","calming-the-mind","calming-the-storm-in-mind","calmness","concentrate","concentration","concentration-of-power","mastery-of-oneself","mindfulness","mindfulness-buddhism","mindfulness-practice","on-life","to-define-my-life","to-live-by","self-awareness","self-empowerment","stability"],"id":25900,"author_id":"Jon+Kabat-Zinn"},{"text":"The next time you feel a sense of dissatisfaction, of something being missing or not quite right, turn inward as an experiment. See if you can capture the energy of that very moment. Instead of picking up a magazine or going to the movies, calling a friend or looking for something to eat or acting up in one way or another, make a place for yourself. Sit down and enter into your breathing, if only for a few minutes. Don't look for anything - neither flowers not light nor a beautiful view. Don't extol the virtues of anything or condemn the inadequacy of anything. Don't even think to yourself, 'I am going inward now.' Just sit. Reside at the center of the world. Let things be as they are.","author":"Jon Kabat-Zinn","tags":["mindfulness"],"id":28006,"author_id":"Jon+Kabat-Zinn"},{"text":"After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.","author":"Jon Kabat-Zinn","tags":["patience"],"id":37799,"author_id":"Jon+Kabat-Zinn"},{"text":"Meditation is a way of being, not a technique. Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and the world to be exactly as it is in this moment, as well.","author":"Jon Kabat-Zinn","tags":["meditation"],"id":58498,"author_id":"Jon+Kabat-Zinn"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jon Kabat-Zinn","tags":["love","compassion","loving "],"id":65365,"author_id":"Jon+Kabat-Zinn"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jon Kabat-Zinn","tags":["birth","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-life","life-and-death","life-and-living","life-lessons","meditation-experience","mind-body-spirit","mind-control","mind-power","mindfulness","mindfulness-practice","i-love","on-life","that-make-sense","to-define-my-life","to-live-by"],"id":103167,"author_id":"Jon+Kabat-Zinn"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}