The time-honored national bestseller, with a new Afterword by the author, celebrating 10 years of positively influencing the way we live.
''Meditation is the art of paying attention, of listening to your heart. Rather than withdrawing from the world, meditation can help you enjoy it more fully, more effectively, and more peacefully. In Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn provides access to the essence of meditation.'' - Dean Ornish, M.D., author of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease
''Want to meet the most interesting, exciting person you will ever know? Let Jon Kabat-Zinn introduce you to YOU. Nowhere else in the literature of meditation can you find so simple and commonsensical a path to yourself.'' - Norman Lear, television producer, Los Angeles
''This book shines with an exquisite simplicity and straightforwardness. Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the best teachers of mindfulness you will ever meet.'' - Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
''Ideally, meditation is not something we do, but something we live. Jon Kabat-Zinn points the way to this living spirit with clarity, ease, and poetry.'' - Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Faith
When Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists and sell over 750,000 copies to date. Ten years later, it has become a classic that continues to change lives far and wide, mapping out both the rationale and a simple path for cultivating mindfulness one's own way in one's own life. It speaks both to those coming to meditation for the first time and to longtime practitioners, and to anyone who cares deeply about experiencing life - and consciousness itself-to the fullest.