Quotes About Attention

las personas no saben escuchar porque la mayor parte de su atención está ocupada en pensar. Prestan más atención a eso que a lo que la otra persona está diciendo

Cuando estás presente, cuando tu atención está plena e intensamente en el ahora, puedes sentir el Ser, pero nunca podrás entenderlo mentalmente.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action — just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

You cannot stop thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease.

A veces, simplemente, basta con cambiar la manera de hacerlo. El «cómo» siempre es más importante que el «qué». Trata de conceder mucha más atención a lo que haces que al resultado que esperas obtener. Centra toda tu atención en lo que el momento te ofrezca.

ROMPE LA VIEJA ESTRUCTURA de resistencia al momento presente, de negación del presente. Convierte en práctica el hecho de retirar la atención que prestas al pasado y al futuro cuando no sean necesarios.

When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, that Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.

Sustained conscious attention severs the link between the pain-body and your thought processes and brings about the process of transmutation. It is as if the pain becomes fuel for the flame of your consciousness, which then burns more brightly as a result.

Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself.

See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it. Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. This implies that you also completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it.

Do you hear that dog barking in the distance? Or that car passing by? Listen carefully. Can you feel the presence of the Unmanifested in that? You can't? Look for it in the silence out of which the sounds come and into which they return. Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within. Silence without, stillness within.

Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it.

you can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention

escoge tener la atención de su conciencia en el presente, más que en el pasado o en el futuro

The ego thrives on others' attention, which is after all a form of psychic energy. The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

Close your eyes and say to yourself: I wonder what my next thought is going to be. Then become as alert as a cat watching a mouse hole. You may find that, as long as you are absolutely alert, the next thought does not arise

Body awareness keeps you present. It anchors you in the Now (see chapter 6).

The body loves your attention. It is also a potent form of self-healing. Most illnesses creep in when you are not present in the body. If the master is not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up residence there.

Whatever behavior the ego manifests, the hidden motivating force is always the same: the need to stand out, be special, be in control; the need for power, for attention, for more.

When you give more attention to the doing than to the future result that you want to achieve through it, you break the old egoic conditioning