Quotes from Jon Kabat-Zinn

By taking a few moments to "die on purpose" to the rush of time while you are still living, you free yourself to have time for the present. By "dying" now in this way, you actually become more alive now.

things already are perfect, perfectly what they are.

Dr. Lown's story graphically illustrates the enormous power that strongly held beliefs, which are in actuality just thoughts, can have on our health.

The interesting thing about this work is that we don't really do anything for them. If we tried, I think, we would fail miserably. Instead we invite them to do something radically new for themselves

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention.

Ultimately, it is our mindlessness that imprisons us. We get better and better at being out of touch with the full range of our possibilities, and more and more stuck in our cultivated-over-a-lifetime habits of not-seeing, but only reacting and blaming.

Work at allowing more things to unfold in your life without forcing them to happen and without rejecting the ones that don't fit your idea of what "should" be happening.

Their terrible outward appearance is actually a disguise adopted by deities embodying wisdom and compassion to help us attain greater understanding and kindness toward ourselves and toward others

The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and to let go of caring whether it will be of use or not.

Mostly we run around doing. Are you able to come to a stop in your life, even for one moment? Could it be this moment? What would happen if you did?

It involves intentionally doing only one thing at a time and making sure I am here for it.

In fact, the word "Buddha" simply means one who has awakened to his or her own true nature.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.