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It is about moving from ideas about merely being sustainable to ones that include regenerating areas devastated by agriculture, mining, and other destructive activities. It is about revolution. The transition from a death economy to a life economy is truly about a change in consciousness — a consciousness revolution.
- John Perkins
It is about moving from ideas about merely being sustainable to ones that include regenerating areas devastated by agriculture, mining, and other destructive activities. It is about revolution. The transition from a death economy to a life economy is truly about a change in consciousness — a consciousness revolution.
- John Perkins
Was she asleep? He groped beside the bed, among his underclothes, for his wristwatch. He would soon learn, in undressing, to leave it lying discreetly visible. Its silent gold-rimmed face, a tiny banker's face, stated that he had already been out to lunch an hour and forty minutes. A sour burning began to revolve in his stomach.
- John Updike
To allow ourselves to be truly in touch with where we already are, no matter where that is, we have got to pause in our experience long enough to let the present moment sink in; long enough to actually feel the present moment, to see it in its fullness, to hold it in awareness and thereby come to know and understand it better.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditation is a way of being, not a technique. Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and the world to be exactly as it is in this moment, as well.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. R. D. LAING
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
TRY: Asking yourself in this moment, "Am I awake?," "Where is my mind right now?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
If we are to grasp the reality of our life while we have it, we will need to wake up to our moments. Otherwise, whole days, even a whole life, could slip past unnoticed.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
It is not that mindfulness is the "answer" to all life's problems. Rather, it is that all life's problems can be seen more clearly through the lens of a clear mind.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
What does happen as we intentionally pay attention to our breathing is that we realize pretty quickly that we are
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn