Jon Kabat-Zinn

The international bestselling mindfulness guide. Mindfulness is considered the heart of Buddhist meditation. But its essence is universal and of deep practical benefit to everyone. In Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn maps out a simple path for cultivating mindfulness in our lives, and awakening us to the unique beauty and possibilities of each present moment. Since its first publication in 1994 (as Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners), this book has changed lives across the globe and is a perennial international bestseller.

Mindfulness meditation for everyday life

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Shelby Doherty

Asking yourself from time to time, "Am l awake now?”

Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we habitually conjure up to avoid what is really unavoidable. 

There is no successful escaping from yourself in the long run, just transformation.

Your feelings are creations of your mind's view of things.

Victoria

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 to the past and the future in this way, you actually become more alive, realizing that this moment is the only moment available to you—or to any of us, ever.

Every time you get a strong impulse to talk about meditation and how wonderful it is, or how hard it is, or what it’s doing for you these days, or what it’s not, or you want to convince someone else how wonderful it would be for them, just look at it as more thinking and go meditate some more.

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