Quotes About Intention

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

Eu nu sunt ceea ce ascund, eu sunt ceea ce devin prin voin??

I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.

If the rule of thumb for attention literacy is to pay attention to your intention, then the heuristic for crap detection is to make skepticism your default.

Is that your wife?" I asked. "Some day, if I play my cards right

I always resented the label of 'shock jock' that the press came up with for me. Because I never intentionally set out to shock anybody.

It makes no sense to hurry up, and so mess up, what I am doing now in order to get started on what I plan to do next. Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

If your heart isn't in the right place, you're no different from the beasts in the forest.

Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.

Our minds have no real or absolute boundaries; on the contrary, we are part of an infinite field of intelligence that extends beyond space and time into realities we have yet to comprehend. The beyul and their dakini emissaries are traces of the original world, inviting us to open to the abiding mystery at the heart of all experience, the inseparability that infuses every action, thought, and intention.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.

Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.

You just can't let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

Junaid de Bagdad pasaba por la escena de un ahorcamiento público, donde un ladrón se encontraba en el patíbulo. Junaid se inclinó en dirección al criminal. Alguien le preguntó: "¿Por qué hiciste eso?" Junaid dijo: "Me estaba inclinando ante la claridad de sus intenciones. Por su objetivo, ese hombre ha dado su vida.

De quién podemos pensar bien cuando se cree que si no se te hace daño alguno, esto ha sido una amabilidad?

Técnicas bienintencionadas como la auto-mortificación arbitraria, son inútiles.

Try always to do what you WISH, and you will often sacrifice what you CAN do.

It is very important what not to do.

Jung lo dice con toda claridad: la mente puede hacer que las cosas sucedan.

Everyone has a "greatness within" to be of service and to benefit their family, friends, neighbors, their community and humanity. From that "Greatness," the beautiful and holy intention to benefit all life springs forth. At that moment when you have heard your inner voice, what did you do? The moment you became aware of your greatness within, what did you do? Did you acknowledge and accept it? Or did you turn away from it?

I believe these connections are not the result of chance. They are the result of long cherished hopes, choices, and creation.