"Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are."

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Source : Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#Life Quotes #Meditation Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I undress to impress - Patch”
“As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.”
“My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.”
“I wonderâ€¦,â€ she said, â€œif there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?”
“Look beyond yourself.”
“I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.”
“True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.”
“We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.”

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