Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

Jon Kabat-Zinn is an American molecular biologist who founded the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979 and developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). His secular adaptation of Buddhist contemplative practice has been studied in hospitals, schools, and prisons, and has helped millions of people meet anxious thinking with awareness instead of resistance — learning, as he puts it, to surf the waves rather than fight them. Read on for Jon Kabat-Zinn’s lines on quieting the restless mind, featured in our overthinking quotes collection.