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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4fda17f | 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. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| e59125d | Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way. | mindfulness non-doing oneness wholeness | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| 7fd713e | Engel's biopsychosocial model proposed that psychological and social factors could either protect a person from illness or increase his or her susceptibility to it. Such factors include a person's beliefs and attitudes, how supported and loved a person feels by family and friends, the psychological and environmental stresses to which one is exposed, and personal health behaviors. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 9d5f03c | The attitude of letting go, of letting things be as they are, of non-attachment, does not imply a condition of reactive distancing or detachment, and is not to be confused with passivity, dissociative behaviors, or attempts to separate yourself even the tiniest bit from reality. It is not a pathological condition of withdrawal adopted to protect yourself. Nor is it nihilistic. It is exactly opposite: a supremely healthy condition of heart a.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 64e51e6 | Studies by Dr. Herbert Benson of the Harvard Medical School in the early 1970s on people practicing a form of meditation known as Transcendental Meditation, or TM, demonstrated that meditation can produce a pattern of significant physiological changes, which he termed the relaxation response. These include a lowering of blood pressure, reduced oxygen consumption, and an overall decrease in arousal. Dr. Benson proposed that the relaxation re.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 57de6cd | Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 55be1d0 | One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait. WALT WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 759ed0a | There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| ecc57d2 | When we spend some time each day in non-doing, resting in awareness, observing the flow of the breath and the activity of our mind and body without getting caught up in that activity, we are cultivating calmness and mindfulness hand in hand. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| cf9fba3 | When you practice mindfulness, the first thing you are likely to notice is how mindless you can be. Let's say you decide to focus on the feeling of the breath moving in and out of the body. It is happening in the present moment. It is important. You can't live without breathing. It is not hard to locate the sensations in the body associated with breathing, at the belly or in the chest, or at the nostrils. You might find yourself saying, "Wh.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 0208b60 | Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath. KABIR | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| a91b9dd | Maybe we have an exaggerated belief that we have to stay in bed just to get through the day or that we can't go out of the house and do things. Views like these lead readily to what is sometimes referred to as "illness behavior." We begin to build our psychological life around our preoccupations with our illness, injury, or disability, while the rest of our life is on hold and unfortunately atrophying along with the body." | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 550b5ad | Just because you decide to still your body and observe your breath from moment to moment doesn't mean that your thinking mind is going to cooperate. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 6bc0203 | What does happen as we intentionally pay attention to our breathing is that we realize pretty quickly that we are | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| d0e23d8 | In order to build continuity and momentum in the meditation practice, you will need to keep reminding yourself to come back to the breath over and over again, no matter what the mind is up to from one moment to the next. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 4fb570b | Carl Jung put it this way: "The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises." With" | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 47ecc94 | By being with yourself...by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than to judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies. This is the great work of awareness; it removes obstacles and releases energies by understanding the nature of life and mind. I.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 9d59e5e | There is really no natural limit to the practice of loving kindness in meditation or in one's life. It is an ongoing, ever-expanding realization of interconnectedness. It is also its embodiment. When you can love one tree or one flower or one dog or one place, or one person or yourself for one moment, you can find all people, all places, all suffering, all harmony in that one moment. Practicing in this way is not trying to change anything o.. | all-people all-places awareness compassion everywhere expanding harmony honouring illusion interconnectedness kindness life love loving loving-kindness meditation mindfulness opening-to-pain presence realisation touched uncovering unlimited well-wishing | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| 3f72da1 | Mindfulness has to do with waking up and living in harmony with oneself and with the world. It is examining who we are, constantly questioning our views of the world and our place in it, while cultivating appreciation for the fullness of each moment we are alive. It is the direct opposite of taking life for granted. It is empowering as well, because paying attention in this way opens channels to deep reservoirs of creativity, intelligence, .. | harmony mindfulness paying-attention present-moment self-examination waking-up wisdom | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| b22464c | The more you practice, the more skill you can develop in reducing pain or at least becoming more transparent to it, so that it is less eroding of your quality of life. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 7386110 | The only way to free yourself from a lifetime of being tyrannized by your own thought processes, whether you suffer from excessive anxiety or not, is to come to see your thoughts for what they are and to discern the sometimes subtle--but most often not-so-subtle--seeds of craving and aversion, of greed and hatred, at work within them. When you can successfully step back and see that you are not your thoughts and feelings, that you do not ha.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 68d83e7 | You have to actually make the time to practice every day, because otherwise you will not find it. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 4ab74de | Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| ae645c6 | 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. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 0ff63f4 | A good place to start is with yourself. 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. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| b45475e | if you know anything about Buddhism, you will know that the most important point is to be yourself and not try to become anything that you are not already. Buddhism is fundamentally about being in touch with your own deepest nature and letting it flow out of you unimpeded. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 8a58c85 | Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient...only the universe rearranging itself. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 5550b0b | If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life. WU-MEN | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 41d8ff1 | Be a light unto yourself. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 8dba6b5 | Fifteen minutes later I'm hunched over the steering wheel of a two-seater that looks like something you'd find in your corn flakes packet. The Smart is insanely cute and compact, does about seventy miles to a gallon, and is the ideal second car for nipping about town; but I'm not nipping about town. I'm going flat out at maybe a hundred and fifty kilometers per hour on the autobahn while some joker is shooting at me from behind with a canno.. | Charles Stross | ||
| 229d73a | Alas, yes. Unfortunately our little canary has gone Section 2 on us. He's absolutely Upney;* halfway to Dagenham, in fact. We're keeping him here because he's not deemed a hazard to himself, but so far he's confessed to assassinating Margaret Thatcher-- | Charles Stross | ||
| cfb34ac | There is good management and bad management: good management is like air--you don't know it's there until it's gone away. | Charles Stross | ||
| 41a442f | loose lips don't merely sink ships, they summon krakens with too many tentacles. | Charles Stross | ||
| 30d3234 | It has so much character that it's probably being hunted by a posse of typographers. | Charles Stross | ||
| 2cd7b1b | This is rural England, after all; please set your watch back thirty years | Charles Stross | ||
| 9b0e9fc | Every long sentence can be broken up into shorter ones, and if you don't know how--if you don't see within your long sentences groupings of simple, clear ideas--it will show. | June Casagrande | ||
| e2b251e | Jupiter is a gibbous streaky horror riding across the zenith of the night black sky--it | Charles Stross | ||
| 4182b9a | if you want to work on data covering more than about one month you're supposed to phone Mr. Jobsworth at BT and whine for help. | Charles Stross | ||
| fa256d0 | There's no briefing sheet on what to do when a supernatural soul-sucking horror disguised as a beautiful woman starts crying on your shoulder. | Charles Stross | ||
| ace5608 | The icky part was knowing I was in the presence of a woman so crazy that she thought her highest calling was to incubate encapsulated alien teratomas until they came squirting out of her body and walked around on their own legs. I have heard of some bizarre vocations in my life, but seldom anything quite so disgusting. | Charles Stross | ||
| 8dde98d | Cocktail hour at the embassy consisted of lots of charming men and women in suits and LBDs drinking Buck's Fizz and being friendly to one another, and so what if half of them had gill slits and dorsal fins under the tailoring, and the embassy smelled of seaweed because it was on an officially derelict oil rig in the middle of the North Sea, and the Other Side has the technical capability to exterminate every human being within two hundred k.. | Charles Stross | ||
| ceae2b6 | Sociopath" was one of the most useful concepts that Miriam's Memetic Engineering Task Force had imported from the United States: Erasmus's Propaganda Ministry had been working overtime to raise awareness of it as an Anti-Democratic Problem: "People who think People are Things." | Charles Stross | ||
| b9eb25b | There's always some idiot who thinks that after the revolution they'll be the one sitting on top of the hill of corpses, dining on caviar served out of a bowl made of a chromed baby's skull. | Charles Stross | ||
| 1542f0b | I feel ill with emotional indigestion: I don't think I've ever felt for Mo the kind of raw, priapic lust I feel for Ramona, but Ramona is a poisonous bloom--off-limits if I value my life. | Charles Stross |