Four Minute Books participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising commissions by linking to Amazon. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.”, “Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.”, “Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.”, “Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. Welcome back. Free download or read online Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life pdf (ePUB) book. Whatever you are thinking right now, that’s what’s on your mind. Embody it.”, “Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.”, “Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.”, “For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. So the path has to be your own. Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.”, “The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Today our patience is tested on a constant basis. Much of life is spent waiting – be it in line at the grocery store, in front of the cinema for a friend, or for an email response to a potentially life-changing application. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”, “Make a list of what is really important to you. But he’s not. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. You can consider him a founding father of modern mindfulness, having studied under the greats, such as Thích Nhất Hạnh and being a founding member of the Cambridge Zen Center. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. ', and 'You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. For example, if you’re playing a game of Chutes & Ladders (seriously, how great is that game?) No one escapes the adventure. Jon calls it practicing voluntary simplicity. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.”, “Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.”, “Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.”, “Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. He’s a professor of medicine emeritus (that means retired, but still active) from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. 398 quotes from Jon Kabat-Zinn: 'You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. His mission being to connect mindfulness with science, Wherever You Go, There You Are was one of the major milestones of this quest. Many small, incremental takeaways make Wherever You Go, There You Are a stash of hidden gems. The Dalai Lama has all the reason in the world to be extremely angry at the Chinese – they’ve killed over a million Tibetans less than half a century ago. “You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”, “The little things? In other words, “Now what?”, “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.”, “See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.”, “So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.”, “We resonate with one another’s sorrows because we are interconnected.