Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Stress, Addiction, Suffering

  "Mindfulness In the Modern World". Interview with Stephan Rechtschaffen, www.eomega.org. February 24, 2012.

• As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel. But if you hope to mobilize your inner capacities for growth and for healing and to take charge in your life on a new level, a certain kind of effort and energy on your part will be required.... It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Pain, Stress, Moving

• From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Views, Suffering, Attention

• Science is now documenting that it's not the objects of meditation that are important, it's the process of paying attention to them - the attending - that actually influences the organism in a whole range of different ways. The brain changes significantly enough to impact thought, emotion, and other biological functions. Today, people recognize that they're not going to find well-being from the outside, or from a pill; they're going to find it by looking inside. All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Stress, Addiction, People

  Source: eomega.org

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