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Jon Kabat-Zinn is an American professor known for his contributions to mindfulness meditation and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Born on June 5, 1944, he is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the founder and director of the Center for Mindfulness.

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Famous Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

“Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding. By watching your thoughts without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about thinking itself, which may help you to be less of a prisoner of those thought patterns (….)”

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Book:Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.”

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“Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness of thinking we have to get somewhere else first before we can rest; thinking we need to get certain things done to feel we have accomplished something before we can be happy.”

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“Wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that's what you've wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that's what's on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important question is, "how are you going to handle it?" .... Like it or not, this moment is all we really have to work with.”

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Book:Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life

“"Resting in awareness" is one of those phrases used a lot by people who practice mindfulness. But when I tried to do it, it wasn't restful and I worried I wasn't doing it right. I kept thinking about work.”

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“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.”

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“Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.”

Thinking Life Actuality

Book:Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

Source: Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

“It’s interesting to look at your children as line-in Zen masters who can put their finger on places where you’re resistant, or thinking narrowly, in ways noone else can. You can either lose your mind and your authenticity in the process of reacting to all that stuff, or you can use it as the perfect opportunity to grow and nourish your children by attending to what is deepest and best in them and in yourself.”

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“Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.”

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“Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.”

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Book:Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

Source: Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

“Awareness Is Not The Same As ThoughtMore Like A Vessel Which Can Hold And Contain Our Thinking”

Thinking Awareness Vessel

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“It is a form of violence, to not see a being for who he or she really is. You think, "Oh, that's my son." But the lens, "my son," completely obliterates the multi- dimensions of that being. Maybe you only see your disappointments in that child, or you aspirations for that child, but that's not the child.”

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“You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.”

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“Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.”

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Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn