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  1. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners

    When we don't automatically take them {thoughts} personally or believe the stories about "reality" that we build from them,when we can simply hold them in awareness with a sense of curiosity and wonder at their amazing power given their insubstantiality, their limitations,and inaccuracies,then we have a chance right in that moment,in any moment really,to not get caught in their habitual patterning,to see thoughts for what they are,impersonal events.Then in that moment at least, we are already free,ready to act with greater clarity and kindness within the constantly changing field of events that is nothing other than life unfolding-- not always as we think it should,but definitely as it is.
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  2. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners

    The challenge for each of us is to find out who we are and to live our way into our own calling.we do this by paying close attention to all aspects of life as they unfold in the present moment.
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  3. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners

    Our lives are simply bigger than thought.
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  4. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners

    It's very important as a beginner that you understand right from the start that meditation is about befriending your thinking, about holding it gently in awareness, no matter what is on your mind in a particular moment. It is not about shutting off your thoughts or changing them in any way.
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  5. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners

    The challenge for mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different.
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  6. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners

    The future that we want - this is it. This is the future of all the previous thoughts you've ever had about the future. You're in it. You're already in it. What is the purpose of all this living if it's only to get some place else and then when you're there you're not happy anyway, you want to be some place else. It's always for 'when I retire,' 'when I graduate college,' 'when I make enough money,' 'when I get married,' 'when I get divorced,' 'when the kids move out.' It's like, wait a minute, this is it. This is your life. We only have moments. This moment's as good as any other. It's perfect.
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