Quotes Tagged "attention"

Whatever you focus on is where you are putting your energy. If you focus on having problems, your energy will go towards having problems. If you focus on having solutions, your energy will go towards having solutions. Are you focusing on the right things?

It's weird to have him paying attention after years of not paying attention.

Put a little soul in everything you say, in everything you do.

the scarcest resource of all: senior managers’ time and attention.

Your dreams are never lost, they are merely waiting for your attention, passion, and action to return to them.

Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity; our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations.

Spirituality is the art of transfiguration. We should not force ourselves to change by hammering our lives into any predetermined shape. We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program or plan for our lives. Rather, we need to practice a new art of attention to the inner rhythm of our days and lives. This attention brings a new awareness of our own human and divine presence.

At any point in time – it is the state of your attention that defines your level of existence as human beings. In your waking state – Flowing Attention trapped in thoughts make you a private person. In your sleeping state – Still Attention free from thoughts make you an universal perceiver. In your natural state – Absolute Attention as it is naturally returns to its source and make you the peaceful pure presence. However in reality – only supreme source exists in all the above mentioned states.

When the body is healthy and whole – you do not feel it. When some physical pain or mental suffering draw your attention – only then you feel your body. In the same manner – when human mind is healthy and whole – you no longer feel yourself. Personal identity is a sign of sick and unhealthy mind. Self-identification is a disease of duality of running mind. In reality – To know – is not to know. To be – is not to be.

To feel the Supreme Source – you do not need the senses. To know the Supreme Source – you do not need the thoughts. The only way to know the source is to be the source.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction. {Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal}

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

It is the care we bestow on apparently trifling, unatractive and very troublesome minutiae which determines the result.

If I had done nothing more than bring McCabe's talents to the attention of what has become a world-wide audience--if I had done only this job, I believe I'd have established myself as a force for mass education and enlightenment with immediate and constructive effects on the thinking portion of the population. My association with McCabe has been enough to build a career for anyone. {Julius on legendary scholar Joseph McCabe}

Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance. Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and REAL HISTORY [WC emphasis]. Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade level. Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals.

One of my goals is to educate you by calling your attention to things that others deem unworthy of attention.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. ... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong.

When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate , bad behavior or living their bad lives through you.