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Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.
- Philip Yancey
Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.
- Joyce Meyer
The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.
- Rain Dove
It is simply a practical way to be more in touch with the fullness of your being through a systematic process of self-observation, self-inquiry, and mindful action.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
But meditation is not just about sitting, either. It is about stopping and being present, that is all.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. THOREAU, Walden
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
It means that how we relate to all our moments, all our experiences, is a choice.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
But waking up is ultimately something that each one of us can only do for ourselves. When it comes down to it, wherever you go, there you are
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
When you begin to question the narrative of yourself and inquire as to who is even doing all of this talking inside your own head, you may come to realize that you have no idea!
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
is that if you are aware of what is happening, you are "doing it right," no matter what is happening.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Thinking seems to constitute our "default setting" rather than awareness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Here is Eliot, again from "Burnt Norton": Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time
- Jon Kabat-Zinn