Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Explore a curated collection of 10 quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Symptoms of illness and distress, plus your feelings about them, can be viewed as messengers coming to tell you somethin — Jon Kabat-Zinn
The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody els — Jon Kabat-Zinn
...but we're not being educated in how to be, only in how to accomplish. So it's all about acquisition, about getting st — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Acknowledging that sometimes, often at very crucial times, you really have no idea where you are going or even where the — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we d — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept — Jon Kabat-Zinn
I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technolog — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, a — Jon Kabat-Zinn