Opening to our lives with Jon Kabat-Zinn
What a robust and accessible conversation with the brilliant teacher, Jon Kabat-Zinn, a leading voice in stress-reduction and mindfulness. If you are just getting started in mindfulness, check out his full conversation with Krista Tippet of the On-Being podcast. It’s a real treat and incredibly relatable to real life- messy dishes and loud toddlers embraced!
Wishing you a moment of pause today- Kim
“The more we can sort out these lessons the more we will not be in some sense running towards our death, but in a sense opening to our lives.” -Jon Kabat Zinn
PS. Here is the beautiful poem he shared at the end of their time together, “Love after Love” by Derek Walcott.
Love after Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
-Derek Walcott
