Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

Yoga is active relaxation, which allows us to develop presence and take responsibility for the way we feel.

You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head to be quiet, to allow it to be still, just for an hour and a half. Just deal with your body and your breath. And it's a great workout. I love it.

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

Yoga and mediation exist whether we choose to acknowledge or practice. It's like a tree. You can walk by the tree and inhale the oxygen it provides consciously or unconsciously. You'll still be benefiting from the tree.

I have different methods. Sometimes I just like to immerse myself in music; that's a really good way to switch off from the world. I also like to listen to Eckhart Tolle, a very wise, very spiritual man, who teaches us how to live in the present.

Yoga always helps me slow down, be present, and be grateful for my health and well-being.

I meditate. Just counting my breath. Before I do anything, really.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment. Moment after moment you feel your last instant. In each inhalation and each exhalation there are countless instants of time. Your intention is to live in each instant.

Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

Confine yourself to the present.

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.