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“ Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes use of thinking, honoring its value and its power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thoughts as thoughts rather than getting caught up in them in reality. ”

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Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding. By watching your thoughts without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about thinking itself, which may help you to be less of a prisoner of those thought patterns (….)

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

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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

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