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

—Jon Kabat-Zinn in Wherever You Go, There You Are

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About Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Jon Kabat-Zinn (born Jon Kabat, June 5, 1944) is an American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Kabat-Zinn was a student of Zen Buddhist teachers such...

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The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

—Jon Kabat-Zinn

What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.

—Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better.

—Laurie Anderson

now paradise better

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

—H. L. Mencken

now presence knowledge moonshine

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

—H. L. Mencken

My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

—Robert Ingersoll

now happiness good

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

now live the future the past

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