Jon Kabat-Zinn 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. – Jon Kabat-Zinn Bringing Quotes Buddhism Quotes Buddhist Quotes Citadel Quotes Civilization Quotes Clinic Quotes Gates Quotes Idea Quotes Mainstream Quotes Medicine Quotes Meditation Quotes Reduction Quotes Started Quotes Stress Quotes Tantamount Quotes Tear Quotes Visigoths Quotes Western Quotes You don’t need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head – the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we’re not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be. When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.
ChanceMerce Cunningham The use of chance operations opened out my way of working. The body tends to be habitual. The use of chance allowed us to find new ways to move and to put movements together that would not otherwise have been available to us. It revealed possibilities that were always there except that my mind hadn’t seen them. – Merce Cunningham
Lynn Schusterman In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of struggling for acceptance, of feeling invisible not for what they have done but simply for who they are. – Lynn Schusterman
Rachel Griffiths We’ve got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it’s the only place it’s played in the world. – Rachel Griffiths
Bear Grylls It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job. – Bear Grylls
Michael Heizer I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he’d thought I would come to no good. – Michael Heizer
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