Life Quotes Quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”

“Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.”

“He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.”

“You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.”