Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
Quotes to Explore
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
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Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
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Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
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Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.
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I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
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Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
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Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.
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The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
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I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.
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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
