Jon Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness Quotations

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.

Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.