Jon Kabat-Zinn quote: "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."

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looki...
JON KABAT-ZINN

Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but...
JON KABAT-ZINN

YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE WEAK

Allow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling. ...
JON KABAT-ZINN

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
JON KABAT ZINN

Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a s...
JON KABAT ZINN

In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you...
JON KABAT-ZINN

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
JON KABAT-ZINN

I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the ...
JON KABAT-ZINN

Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Ame...
JON KABAT-ZINN

Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your sp...
JON KABAT-ZINN

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up bein...
JON KABAT-ZINN

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting r...
JON KABAT-ZINN

There is really no natural limit to the practice of loving kindness in meditation or in one’s life...
JON KABAT-ZINN

We resonate with one another’s sorrows because we are interconnected. Being whole and simultaneous...
JON KABAT-ZINN

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's c...
JON KABAT-ZINN

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take...
JON KABAT-ZINN

You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and pea...
JON KABAT-ZINN

The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way bac...
JON KABAT-ZINN

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.
JON KABAT-ZINN

The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare syste...
JON KABAT-ZINN

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. ...
JON KABAT-ZINN

I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to...
JON KABAT-ZINN

There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice i...
JON KABAT-ZINN

When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those...
JON KABAT-ZINN

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
JON KABAT-ZINN

There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of ...
JON KABAT-ZINN

Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, nonjudging, and trust, provides a so...
JON KABAT-ZINN

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to learn this stuff, and it's not like you have to change yo...
JON KABAT-ZINN

It's a way of being that affects the quality of the day -- that actually you can develop, that you c...
JON KABAT-ZINN

Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a s...
JON KABAT-ZINN

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
JON KABAT-ZINN

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my pare...
JON KABAT-ZINN

Mindfulness has to do with waking up and living in harmony with oneself and with the world. It is ex...
JON KABAT-ZINN

At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient... only the universe rearranging ...
JON KABAT-ZINN

No matter how many scars we carry from what we have gone through and suffered in the past, our intri...
JON KABAT-ZINN

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulne...
JON KABAT-ZINN

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to...
JON KABAT-ZINN

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
JON KABAT-ZINN

I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind o...
JON KABAT-ZINN

There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes...
JON KABAT-ZINN

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in ...
JON KABAT-ZINN

You make problem, you have problem
JON KABAT-ZINN

The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of af...
JON KABAT-ZINN

He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as t...
JON KABAT-ZINN

Wherever you go, there you are
JON KABAT-ZINN

Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart
MYLA KABAT-ZINN

They didn't have much (down low). Kyle is the tallest player (6-foot-6) in Class M, and he's just ki...
DOUG KABAT

Yeah, we have a lot of weapons.
DOUG KABAT

Look at who they've played.
DOUG KABAT

We will not know unless we begin.
HOWARD ZINN

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
HOWARD ZINN

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothi...
HOWARD ZINN

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful co...
HOWARD ZINN

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
HOWARD ZINN

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
HOWARD ZINN

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
HOWARD ZINN

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign p...
HOWARD ZINN

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives wh...
HOWARD ZINN

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are ...
HOWARD ZINN

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured....
HOWARD ZINN

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
HOWARD ZINN

I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the bloo...
HOWARD ZINN

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and telev...
HOWARD ZINN

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
HOWARD ZINN

I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national bound...
HOWARD ZINN

The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major me...
HOWARD ZINN

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobed...
HOWARD ZINN

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?
HOWARD ZINN

TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human histor...
HOWARD ZINN

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or t...
HOWARD ZINN

War itself is the enemy of the human race.
HOWARD ZINN

There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole. During an ambush, you're praying for everything a...
WARREN ZINN

The Fugitive Slave Act was a flagrant example of Northern and federal collaboration with slaveholder...
HOWARD ZINN

It has to be done carefully,
HOWARD ZINN

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more ...
HOWARD ZINN

I am willing to accept that there might be rare circumstances where applications of force might be e...
HOWARD ZINN

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an...
HOWARD ZINN

Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one int...
HOWARD ZINN

It was surreal. I watched it unfold before my eyes, and I said to myself, 'This is it. This is the p...
WARREN ZINN

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interest...
HOWARD ZINN

I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could s...
HOWARD ZINN

Okay, that one's pretty good," Fred acknowledged, after she'd told him a particularly filthy joke. "...
BRIDGET ZINN

I'm glad you escaped, Kyra," Fred said, looking serious again. "And that I found you."
"Me too,...
BRIDGET ZINN

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should li...
HOWARD ZINN

To live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itsel...
HOWARD ZINN

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or t...
HOWARD ZINN

In a system of intimidation and control, people do not show how much they know, how deeply they feel...
HOWARD ZINN

Capital punishment could not be justified in any society calling itself civilized.
HOWARD ZINN

The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in so...
HOWARD ZINN

Besides the blood on his shirt you would have been hard pressed to know he had just been attacked in...
BRAD ZINN

She would not let go of him and the three of us pinned her up against this wall over here and finall...
BRAD ZINN

What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on ...
HOWARD ZINN

You can't be neutral on a moving train.
HOWARD ZINN

People like Eugene Debs, Helen Keller, Emma Goldman, Jack London and Upton Sinclair were wonderful w...
HOWARD ZINN

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people,can transform the world.
HOWARD ZINN

(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherlan...
HOWARD ZINN

I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it...
HOWARD ZINN

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates
HOWARD ZINN

He said, 'Remember this: Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
HOWARD ZINN

I don't think there's any question that the United States is going to have to get out of Iraq. The o...
HOWARD ZINN

The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiator...
HOWARD ZINN

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
HOWARD ZINN

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions h...
HOWARD ZINN

That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a p...
HOWARD ZINN

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to a...
HOWARD ZINN

Ari, maybe we should get you out of here. No joke. You really are dangerous with thus truth serum in...
BRIDGET ZINN

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can supp...
HOWARD ZINN

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some t...
HOWARD ZINN

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter ...
HOWARD ZINN

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be...
HOWARD ZINN

The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: ...
HOWARD ZINN

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they&...
HOWARD ZINN

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.
HOWARD ZINN

You can’t be neutral on a moving train,
HOWARD ZINN

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the ...
HOWARD ZINN

I'm completely done at this point. It came to a point where I said to myself, 'Why I am doing this?'...
WARREN ZINN

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt...
JON MEACHAM

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l...
JON CORZINE

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.
JON HUERTAS

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch wit...
JON STEWART

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much o...
JON STEWART

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that ...
JON STEWART

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.
JON STEWART

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
JON STEWART

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.
JON STEWART

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. Y...
JON STEWART

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
JON STEWART

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.
JON STEWART

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
JON STEWART

Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you kn...
JON STEWART

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart b...
JON STEWART

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
JON STEWART

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.
JON STEWART

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
JON STEWART

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been loo...
JON STEWART

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
JON STEWART

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to lo...
JON STEWART

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they...
JON STEWART

Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is ...
JON FAVREAU

I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bo...
JON FAVREAU

'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop an...
JON PARDI

I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort o...
JON FAVREAU

I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.
JON HEDER

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each sol...
JON KYL

I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that ...
JON PARDI

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our...
JON MEACHAM

All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credi...
JON TENNEY

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
JON LANDAU

Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really...
JON FAVREAU

I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon ...
JON TENNEY

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terr...
JON MEACHAM

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision maki...
JON VOIGHT

When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing...
JON FAVREAU

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursin...
JON PORTER

When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get...
JON FAVREAU

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not...
JON MEACHAM

People selling content internationally need to be highly focused on selling the right product to the...
JON FELTHEIMER

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are abl...
JON PORTER

Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim o...
JON KATZ

When the Beatles wrote 'Paperback Writer,' it couldn't have been the same old thing. You...
JON BATISTE

I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said t...
JON FISHMAN

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.
JON ENGLISH

'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is b...
JON SCIESZKA

'The Royals' has emerged as a breakout series that has become one of E Network's highest...
JON FELTHEIMER

It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what...
JON STEWART

Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians ca...
JON STEWART

A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge...
JON RONSON

The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom.
JON STEWART

I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic...
JON KRAKAUER

Happiness [is] only real when shared
JON KRAKAUER

It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
JON KRAKAUER

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, b...
JON STEWART

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in abo...
JON STEWART

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.
JON ENGLISH

Just every moment with Dick Cheney has been my favorite. Here's what I wonder about Dick Cheney, and...
JON STEWART

Yeah, that's the ticket.
JON LOVITZ

Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.'
JON STEWART

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand g...
JON STEWART

We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the b...
JON STEWART

For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's inter...
JON STEWART

But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-b...
JON STEWART

Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunishe...
JON STEWART

I can't read lips unless they're touching mine.
JON TROAST

GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of th...
JON STEWART

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were sw...
JON STEWART

James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many ro...
JON LANDAU

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the...
JON CORZINE

Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana...
JON STEWART

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instru...
JON VOIGHT

I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmente...
JON ORINGER

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good ...
JON MEACHAM

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and comple...
JON MEACHAM

Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to inter...
JON KATZ

One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply th...
JON MEACHAM

'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff B...
JON LANDAU

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a co...
JON PARDI

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one&...
JON MEACHAM

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.

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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.

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