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.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that our fears may stem from insecurities about our true potential.
Jon Kabat-Zinn reflects on the idea that fear often arises from a perception of inadequacy, making us believe we are less capable than we truly are. He urges us to recognize the deeper truth of our vast potential and inherent worth, implying that we can transcend our self-imposed limitations when we embrace our true selves.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming self-doubt.
Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.
One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if youβre not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, youβre not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.
Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.
Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.
If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.
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