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  1. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Coming to Our Senses: Healing

    a work that no one on the planet can do for us, no matter how much they would want to, no matter how much love they have for us, no matter how badly they feel for us, no matter how much they are helping us in the ways that they can help.
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  2. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Coming to Our Senses: Healing

    Meditation is a way of being, not a technique.
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  3. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Coming to Our Senses: Healing

    Coming to our senses involves cultivating an overarching awareness of all our senses, including our own minds, and their limitations, including the temptation when we feel deeply insecure and have a lot of resources, to try to control as rigidly and as tightly as possible all variables in the external world, an impossible and ultimately depleting, intrinsically violent, and self-exhausting enterprise.
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  4. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Coming to Our Senses: Healing

    Coming to our senses involves cultivating an overarching awareness of all our senses, including our own minds, and their limitations, including the temptation when we feel deeply insecure and have a lot of resources, to try to control as rigidly and as tightly as possible all variables in the external world, an impossible and ultimately depleting, intrinsically violent,
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  5. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Coming to Our Senses: Healing

    even and especially as we are being confronted with the law of impermanence and the inevitability of change, conditions we are subject to as individuals regardless of how much we resist or protest or try to control outcomes. If we wish to make a quantum leap to greater awareness, there is no getting around the need for us to be willing to wake up, and to care deeply about waking up.
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  6. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Coming to Our Senses: Healing

    Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, … W. B. YEATS, "Sailing to Byzantium
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  7. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Coming to Our Senses: Healing

    For mindfulness is the knowing quality of awareness, the core property of mind itself. It is strengthened by sustaining, and it is self-sustaining. Mindfulness is the field of knowing. When that field is stabilized by calmness and one-pointedness, the arising of the knowing itself is sustained, and the quality of the knowing strengthened.
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  8. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Coming to Our Senses: Healing

    It does provide a greater basket for tenderly holding and intimately knowing our suffering in any and all circumstances, and that, it turns out, is transformative, and can make all the difference between endless imprisonment in pain and suffering and freedom from suffering,
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  9. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Coming to Our Senses: Healing

    Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine."
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  10. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Coming to Our Senses: Healing

    It is healing simply to be heard, to be met, to be seen, to be known.
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  11. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Coming to Our Senses: Healing

    If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON
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  12. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Coming to Our Senses: Healing

    It is a hard message to swallow at first blush because it brings into question everything that we think we are, which for the most part seems to come from what we identify with, our bodies, our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, our values, our work, our expectations of what is "supposed" to happen and how things are "supposed" to work out for me in order for me to be happy, our stories of where we came from and where we are going and of who we are.
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