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.
The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.
I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.
Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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