Jon Kabat-Zinn
American molecular biologist, meditation teacher, and the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) — the eight-week protocol developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 1979 that introduced mindfulness meditation into mainstream Western medicine, education, and corporate life. A student of Zen masters Philip Kapleau, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Seungsahn, and of yoga teacher Robert Thurman, he stripped Buddhist meditation of its religious context and presented it as an evidence-based practice for chronic pain, anxiety, and stress. The MBSR curriculum has now been studied in thousands of clinical trials and adopted in hospitals, schools, prisons, and Fortune 500 companies worldwide. His books — Full Catastrophe Living, Wherever You Go There You Are, Coming to Our Senses — have sold millions of copies and shaped how an entire generation thinks about attention.
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Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn
101 quotes“Mindfulness reduces the velocity of mental noise.”
“The MBSR is not about Buddhism. It is about being a human being.”
“To pause is to wake up. To wake up is to be alive.”
“You can't think your way to mindfulness. You have to practice it.”
“In paying attention to the breath, the breath teaches you.”
“Settle. Allow. Notice. The practice has many doors.”
“Mindfulness is the friend that helps you see yourself clearly.”
“To be alive is to be vulnerable. Mindfulness is the courage to feel.”
“The map is not the territory. The breath is the territory.”
“In the practice, you don't make anything happen. You let what is happening be felt.”
“Body sensations are doorways to presence.”
“You can't out-think your suffering. You can be present with it.”
“Awareness is its own reward.”
“The body knows what the mind only thinks.”
“In each breath, the practice is renewed.”
“To breathe with awareness is to begin to live.”
“You are not the storm. You are the sky in which it passes.”
“The doorway to mindfulness is always open. You only have to walk through.”
“In the body, the practice finds its home.”
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