Quotes About Intention

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

Replace 'I don't have time' with 'it doesn't matter' and see how that feels.

Design is action at a distance.

Bee. Nothing happens to you. You happen to everything.

It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.

Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

One thing I've learned in the woods is that there is no such thing as random. Everything is steeped in meaning, colored by relationships, one thing with another.

restoring a habitat, no matter how well intentioned, produces casualties. We set ourselves up as arbiters of what is good when often our standards of goodness are drive by narrow interests, by what we want.

Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention. If you stand together and profess a thing before your community, it holds you accountable.

Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention.

Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention. If you stand together and profess a thing before your community, it holds you accountable. Ceremonies transcend the boundaries of the individual and resonate beyond the human realm. These acts of reverence are powerfully pragmatic. These are ceremonies that magnify life.

Slow down— it's thirty years of a tree's life you've got in your hands there. Don't you owe it a few minutes to think about what you'll do with it?

My mother had her own more pragmatic ritual of respect: the translation of reverence and intention into action.

The difficulty of digging is an important constraint. Not everything should be convenient.

One thing I've learned in the woods is that there is no such thing as random. Everything is steeped in meaning, colored by relationships, one thing with another.

Wild strawberries fit the definition of gift, but grocery store berries do not. It's the relationship between producer and consumer that changes everything. As a gift-thinker, I would be deeply offended if I saw wild strawberries in the grocery store. I would want to kidnap them all. They were not meant to be sold, only to be given.

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Decide what you want and do what gets it.'

I am here for a reason. This is no haphazard mistake. What good can I do with what I have?

It's lovely when people accept your gift with gratitude, but you can't control that. You can only control your intention.

You can choose and create the life you want. You are the author of your reality.

To return, then, to the potentially problematic issue of the effortlessness with which we read minds: a flagrantly wrong, from our perspective, interpretation, such as taking tears of grief for tears of joy, or thinking that Mr. Newlin raises his hand to point out that the sky is falling, is still effortless from the point of view of cognitive psychologists because of the ease with which we correlate tears with an emotional state or the raised hand with a certain underlying desire/intention.

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