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Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

American - Educator | June 5, 1944 -

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.

Life Great Mind Touch Out Normal

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

Fight School New York Tough Learn

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

Practice Writing Mindfulness

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

Powerful Out Mindfulness Irrelevant

Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.

Experience Mind Game You Television

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.

Truth Spiritual People View Harm

I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization.

Stress Medicine Down Civilization

The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy.

Life Work World Medicine Insurance

Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.

Discipline Training Medical Accept

I'll take transformational change any way it comes. 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. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.

Change Technology Name Look Know

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

People Want Themselves Following Jon

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both. But you have to learn how to get along. I did an awful lot of fighting. I was tough, but I'm also relatively small, so I learned very early on to use my mind.

Fight School New York Mind Small

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