Quotes About Intentionality

If you believe in love, do you manifest it or just talk a lot? If you believe in compassion, in non-harming, in kindness, in wisdom, in generosity, in calmness, in solitude, in non-doing, in being even-handed and clear, do you manifest these qualities in your daily life? This is the level of intentionality which is required to keep your meditation practice vital

Each moment is an opportunity to see that we do not have to succumb to old habits that function below the level of our awareness. With great intentionality and resolve, we can experiment with non-distraction. We can experiment with non-diversion. We can experiment with non-fixing. We can experiment with non-doing.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Qué sucedería si enfocaras tus oraciones en una cosa por una persona durante un mes o un año? Solo hay una manera de averiguarlo: haz tu propio experimento de oración.

Are you playing offense in your marriage? Or are you playing a prevent defense that leaves romance on the sidelines? Are you parenting reactively or proactively? Do you have a spiritual growth plan? Are you working for a paycheck or stewarding your God-given gifts pursuing a God-ordained dream? Are you trying to break even spiritually by avoiding sin? Or are you going for broke by invading the darkness with the light and love of Jesus Christ?

fact, there is a strong element of intentionality here on the part of leaders in forming prison policy. At high levels of planning officials have even advocated procedures for breaking down inmates, making them especially vulnerable to the routinizing of time. They

My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

karma just means action, in Buddhist terms to act out of an intention conditioned by external and internal conditions, which in turn will have a certain result and will leave a certain imprint.

Don't be so busy 'working' for God that you don't do what God has asked you to do.

Sip, don't gulp.

I stared at the tweet I was about to post. It wasn't going to add anything to my life. Or anyone else's life. It was just going to lead to more checking of my phone, like Pepys with his pocket watch. I pressed delete, and felt a strange relief as I watch each letter disappear.

Life is about saying yes to the things that help you become the-best-version-of-yourself and no to the things that don't.

If you want twenty minutes of quality time with someone you love, schedule three or four hours with him or her one afternoon, and chances are, somewhere in the middle of that three or four hours you will have your twenty minutes of quality time. When

Quite simply, if our life of prayer is inconsistent, our ability to do or know God's will throughout the day will have the same inconsistency.

And if you don't say no to the wrong things there will be no room in your life to say yes to the right things.

Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

This passage from the indeterminate to the determinate, this continuous taking up again of its own history in the unity of a new sense, is thought itself.

These clarifications allow us to understand motricity unequivocally as original intentionality. Consciousness is originally not an 'I think that,' but rather an 'I can.

Nature is what has a meaning, without this meaning being posited by thought: it is the autoproduction of meaning.

Slowness seems to be a key element in living a rich life. I don't mean rich in the sense of money. I mean rich in the ability to feel things as they're happening, to not constantly be thinking of the next thing.

Second, the other person is not the object of intentionality, strictly speaking; the self is not conscious of the other person as Other.[30]

Our specific proposal is that the ontogeny of human cognitive and social uniqueness is structured by the maturation of children's capacities for shared intentionality.