When you greet yourself fully, you will love again.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D is the founder and director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and associate professor of medicine in the Division of Preventative and Behavioral Medicine. His clinic was featured in 1993 in the public television series "Healing and the Mind" with Bill Moyers. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the author of "Wherever You Go, There You Are" and "Full-Catastrophe Living: Using Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness."

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Excerpted from "Pebbles and Pearls"
By Jon Kabat-Zinn
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