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Quotes About Present

It helps to have a focus for your attention, an anchor line to tether you to the present moment and to guide you back when the mind wanders. The breath serves this purpose exceedingly well. It can be a true ally. Bringing awareness to our breathing, we remind ourselves that we are here now, so we might as well be fully awake for whatever is already happening.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Remember, now is the only time you have for anything. You have to accept yourself as you are before you can really change. Your choosing to do so becomes an act of self-compassion and intelligence. When
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Through it all, we attempt to bring balance to the present moment, understanding that in patience lies wisdom, knowing that what will come next will be determined in large measure by how we are now.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditace je opravdu jediná lidská ?innost, ve které se nesnažíte dostat nÄ›kam jinam, ale prostÄ› si dovolíte z?stat tam, kde jste, a takoví, jací jste. Je to hoÃ…â"¢ká medicína, která se Å¡patnÄ› polyká, když se vám nelíbí, kde jste a co se kolem vás dÄ›je, ale v takových pÃ…â"¢ípadech je její užívání obzvlášť užite?né.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditar consiste simplemente en prestar atención a la vida como si en verdad importase.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
So the training in mindfulness that we will be exploring together is really the cultivation of a resource that is already ours.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
are using the word practice here in a special way. It does not mean a rehearsal or a perfecting of some skill so that we can put it to use at some other time. In the meditative context, practice means "being in the present on purpose." The means and the end of meditation are really the same. We are not trying to get somewhere else, only working
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time Ã¢â'¬Â¦ You
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
This has everything to do with holding the present moment in its fullness without imposing anything extra on it, perceiving its purity and the freshness of its potential to give rise to the next moment.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
The challenge for each of us is to find out who we are and to live our way into our own calling.we do this by paying close attention to all aspects of life as they unfold in the present moment.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
We see each moment as a new beginning, a new opportunity to start over, to tune in, to reconnect.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Note that an individual thought does not last long. It is impermanent. If it comes, it will go.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. PETER MATTHIESSEN, The Snow Leopard
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
La pleine conscience signifie « faire attention » de manière particulière : délibérément, au moment présent et sans jugements de valeurs.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
The present is the only time that we have to know anything. It is the only time we have to perceive, to learn, to act, to change, to heal, to love.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
nous sommes invités, par le moment présent, à nous connecter avec l'intention d'incarner de notre mieux le calme, la pleine conscience et la sérénité ici et maintenant.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Acceptance of the present moment has nothing to do with resignation in the face of what is happening. It simply means a clear acknowledgment that what is happening is happening. Acceptance doesn't tell you what to do. What happens next, what you choose to do, that has to come out of your understanding of this moment.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and non judgementally
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
What happens now is what matters.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
How you are in relationship to this moment influences the quality and character of the next moment. In this way, we can shape the future by taking care of the present. What a remarkable opportunity.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
This really is your life. You only have this moment. All the rest is memory (which is also here now) and anticipation (which is also happening here and now). This moment is as good as any other. In fact, it's perfect.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
However, when we start paying attention a little more closely to the way our own mind actually works, as we do when we meditate, we are likely to find that much of the time our mind is more in the past or the future than it is in the present.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
things already are perfect, perfectly what they are.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
It involves intentionally doing only one thing at a time and making sure I am here for it.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn