Quotes about Being
Always be. Never try to become. You can be anything you want, just don't work at becoming. Remember to be it.
- John Perkins
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
What does happen as we intentionally pay attention to our breathing is that we realize pretty quickly that we are
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditation is more rightly thought of as a "Way" than as a technique. It is a Way of being, a Way of living, a Way of listening, a Way of walking along the path of life and being in harmony with things as they are.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Ultimately, I see mindfulness as a love affair — with life, with reality and imagination, with the beauty of your own being, with your heart and body and mind, and with the world.
- 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
that the most important point is to be yourself and not try to become anything that you are not already.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
We live immersed in a world of constant doing. Rarely are we in touch with who is doing the doing, or, put otherwise, with the world of being.
- 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.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.
- Paul Tillich
We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.
- Wayne Dyer
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey