"Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way."

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Source : Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.374, Hachette UK

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#Struggle Quotes #Healing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I just want to help people become winners. That's what I'm about. I'm about winning.”

Source : "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.”
“I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.”
“To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.”
“People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.”
“Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation”
“The criminals will be humiliated... To hurt the enemy more, raise the level of your attacks.”
“Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.”

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