Jon Kabat-Zinn > Quotes

“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“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.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness

“Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

“The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

“Wherever you go, there you are”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

“He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“You make problem, you have problem”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness Meditation

“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.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

“Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

“From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

“we are simply inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are