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Patience Is A Form Of Wisdom. It Demonstrates That We Understand And Accept The Fact That Sometimes Things Must Unfold In Their Own Time.
-Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Patience Is A Form

Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Patience Is A Form Of Wisdom. It Demonstrates That We Understand And Accept The Fact That Sometimes Things Must Unfold In Their Own Time.

Understanding the Quote: "patience is a form of wisdom. it demonstrates that we understand and..."

This quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn reflects deeply on the theme of patience. It connects to the universal human journey of purpose, motivation, and reflection. Often categorized under Patience, Facts, Sometimes, the quote offers insight, emotional clarity, and intellectual inspiration to readers worldwide.

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Trying
Moments
Too Much Of The Education System Orients Students Toward Becoming Better Thinkers, But There Is Almost No Focus On Our Capacity To Pay Attention And Cultivate Awareness.
Becoming Better
Focus
Attention
People Say Things That Get You Ramped Up. I Find Myself, As My Body Clenches Up When Somebody Says Something That I Know Is Wrong Or I Wanna Catch Them In A Lie Or Whatever, That Just, "calm Down. When It's Your Turn, You Make Your Point."
Lying
People
Calm
The Real Meditation Practice Is How We Live Our Lives From Moment To Moment To Moment.
Real
Meditation Practice
Moments
Paying Attention And Awareness Are Universal Capacities Of Human Beings.
Attention
Awareness
Capacity
Maybe The Fear Is That We Are Less Than We Think We Are, When The Actuality Of It Is That We Are Much Much More.
Life
Thinking
Actuality
Mindfulness Is About Love And Loving Life. When You Cultivate This Love, It Gives You Clarity And Compassion For Life, And Your Actions Happen In Accordance With That.
Loving Life
Compassion
Giving
Simply Put, Mindfulness Is Moment-to-moment Non-judgmental Awareness.
Mindfulness
Judgmental
Moments
The Best Way To Capture Moments Is To Pay Attention. This Is How We Cultivate Mindfulness. Mindfulness Means Being Awake. It Means Knowing What You Are Doing.
Life
Mean
Knowing
Practice Moment To Moment Non-judgemental Awareness.
Practice
Judgemental
Moments
See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-acceptance , Or Some Time Each Day With No Purpose. Practice Feeling Deserving Enough To Accept These Gifts Without Obligation - To Simply Receive From Yourself, And From The Universe.
Acceptance
Blessing
Self
Mindfulness Is A Way To Rebalance Ourselves. Instead Of Being Lost In Thought, Or Caught Up In Emotional Upheaval, We Can Tip The Scale In The Direction Of Greater Equanimity, Clarity, Wisdom, And Self-compassion By Actually Learning How To Inhabit That Other Dimension Of Our Being.
Emotional
Mindfulness
Clarity
If We Are Honest With Ourselves, Most Of Us Will Have To Admit That We Live Out Our Lives In An Ocean Of Fear.
Life
Spiritual
Fear
Mindfulness Means Moment-to-moment, Non-judgmental Awareness. It Is Cultivated By Refining Our Capacity To Pay Attention, Intentionally, In The Present Moment, And Then Sustaining That Attention Over Time As Best We Can. In The Process, We Become More In Touch With Our Life As It Is Unfolding.
Mean
Mindfulness
Attention
One Way To Look At Meditation Is As A Kind Of Intrapsychic Technology That's Been Developed Over Thousands Of Years By Traditions That Know A Lot About The Mind/body Connection.
Technology
Years
Meditation
The Mind That Has Not Been Developed Or Trained Is Very Scattered. That's The Normal State Of Affairs, But It Leaves Us Out Of Touch With A Great Deal In Life, Including Our Bodies.
Mind
Body
Normal
No One Can Listen To Your Body For You... To Grow And Heal, You Have To Take Responsibility For Listening To It Yourself.
Responsibility
Listening
Body
In Letting Go Of Wanting Something Special To Occur, Maybe We Can Realize That Something Special Is Already Occurring.
Letting Go
Special
Realizing
From The Perspective Of Meditation, Every State Is A Special State, Every Moment A Special Moment.
Perspective
Meditation
Special
It's Okay That The Mind Drifts Away But You Just Bring It Back.
Mind
Okay
Perhaps Ultimately, Spiritual Simply Means Experiencing Wholeness And Interconnectedness Directly, A Seeing That Individuality And The Totality Are Interwoven, That Nothing Is Separate Or Extraneous. If You See In This Way, Then Everything Becomes Spiritual In Its Deepest Sense. Doing Science Is Spiritual. So Is Washing The Dishes.
Spiritual
Mean
Individuality
Intelligence Is The Door To Freedom And Alert Attention Is The Mother Of Intelligence.
Life
Mother
Doors
Zen Has An Expression, "nothing Special." When You Understand "nothing Special," You Realize That Everything Is Special. Everything's Special And Nothing's Special. Everything's Spiritual And Nothing's Spiritual. It's How You See, It's What Eyes You're Looking Through, That Matters.
Spiritual
Eye
Expression
Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, Or Other Historical Traditions, Are All Different Streams In The Same River, Different Currents In The Same Ocean. With The Long View, We Can Trust That The Seeds That We're Planting Are Transforming The World.
Ocean
Long
Historical
Another Way To Look At Meditation Is To View Thinking Itself As A Waterfall, A Cascading Of Thought. In Cultivating Mindfulness, We Are Going Beyond Or Behind Our Thinking, Much The Way You Might Find A Vantage Point In A Cave Or Depression In The Rock Behind A Waterfall. We Still See And Hear The Water, But We Are Out Of The Torrent.
Thinking
Rocks
Views
Wherever You Go, There You Are. Whatever You Wind Up Doing, That's What You've Wound Up Doing. Whatever You Are Thinking Right Now, That's What's On Your Mind. Whatever Has Happened To You, It Has Already Happened. The Important Question Is, "how Are You Going To Handle It?" .... Like It Or Not, This Moment Is All We Really Have To Work With.
Thinking
Wind
Mind
We Are Continuously Bombarded With Information, Appeals, Deadlines, Communications... We Are Continually Being Squeezed Or Projected Into The Future As Our Present Moments Are Assaulted And Consumed In The Fires Of Endless Urgency.
Communication
Fire
Information
Writing Can Be An Incredible Mindfulness Practice.
Writing
Practice
Mindfulness
You Might Be Tempted To Avoid The Messiness Of Daily Living For The Tranquility Of Stillness And Peacefulness. 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.
Life
Strong
Attachment
Mindfulness Means Paying Attention In A Particular Way: On Purpose, In The Present Moment, And Non-judgmentally.
Mean
Mindfulness
Attention
So, In Meditation Practice, The Best Way To Get Somewhere Is To Let Go Of Trying To Get Anywhere At All.
Letting Go
Meditation Practice
Trying
We Must Be Willing To Encounter Darkness And Despair When They Come Up And Face Them, Over And Over Again If Need Be, Without Running Away Or Numbing Ourselves In The Thousands Of Ways We Conjure Up To Avoid The Unavoidable.
Life
Running
Darkness
Living In A Chronic State Of Unawareness Can Cause Us To Miss Much Of What Is Most Beautiful And Meaningful In Our Lives.
Beautiful
Meaningful
Missing
See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-acceptance
Acceptance
Blessing
Self
Non-doing Has Nothing To Do With Being Indolent Or Passive. Quite The Contrary. It Takes Great Courage And Energy To Cultivate Non-doing, Both In Stillness And In Activity. Nor Is It Easy To Make A Special Time For Non-doing And To Keep At It In The Face Of Everything In Our Lives Which Needs To Be Done.
Courage
Meditation
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