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“ The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you. ”

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

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn Awareness Mindfulness Wisdom

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

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn Illusion Time

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

Jon Kabat-Zinn Change Holding Thought Liberation About Thinking Meditation Mindfulness Not Drawn Into Thought Thinking Thought Patterns Watching Thought

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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