Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
Interpretation
Mindfulness involves being present and fully aware of our experiences, allowing us to tap into our inner strength and healing.
This quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn emphasizes the importance of mindfulness as a practice of being fully awake and aware in our everyday lives. By engaging with each moment's richness, we not only enhance our perception but also unlock our inherent capabilities for personal growth and self-healing.
In practice
During a workshop on stress reduction, a facilitator quoted this to emphasize the importance of being present.
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 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.
Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.
If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.
We think we have to become something else to be satisfied, not realizing that being ourselves is the only thing that can satisfy us.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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