Quotes About Attention

In fact, what obscures vision and exposes people to more risk is not an outward mindset, which stays fully alive to and aware of others, but an inward one, which turns its attention away from others while simultaneously provoking resistance.

Nothing holds out these days, and next thing you know we'll be counting those who are famous by days.

girl like Jennie is like a comfortable fire to the average masculine mind; they gravitate to it, seek its sympathy, yearn to possess it. Hence she was annoyed by many unwelcome attentions.

For a time he watched the Captain's unconscious face, reading it with great tenderness and utmost attention, like a mother with an infant. His words said, Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? And they said, But I'm glad it's you, little prince. I'm glad it's you. He put out his huge hand and, with a feather touch, stroked the sleeping lips.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

Seules votre compassion, votre attention et votre gentillesse sont invincibles et sans limites.

So, while driving in the car with the person sitting right next to us, we think about other things. We aren't interested in him anymore. What arrogance! The person sitting there beside is really a mystery! We only have the impression that we know her, but we don't know anything yet.

If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.

The greatest gift we can offer anyone is our true presence.

One day my left hand was holding a nail and my right hand a hammer. I was trying to hang a picture and I was not very mindful. Instead of pounding on the nail I pounded on the finger. Right away my right hand put the hammer down and took care of my left hand as if she were taking care of herself.

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. It's so clear. Mindfulness is the energy and practice that helps you go back to the here and now so that you encounter life.

When we pay attention to our breathing, our in-breath and out-breath become peaceful and relaxed. When we walk with attention and we just walk without thinking or being carried away by anything, we already begin to heal.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

Mindfulness frees us of forgetfulness and dispersion and makes it possible to live fully each minute of life. Mindfulness enables us to live.

You've got to practice meditation when you walk, stand, lie down, sit, and work, while washing your hands, washing the dishes, sweeping the floor, drinking tea, talking to friends, or whatever you are doing: "While washing the dishes, you might be thinking about the tea afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way as quickly as possible in order to sit and drink tea. But that means that you are incapable of living during the time you are washing the dishes.

the present moment contains both past and future. The only material that the future is made of is the present. If you know how to handle the present in the best way you can, that's all you can do for the future. Handling the present moment with all your attention, all your intelligence, is already building a future.

Forgetfulness is the darkness, mindfulness is the light.

You have to train yourself, to learn how to go home to the present moment, to the here and now

When you love someone, the most precious gift you can give your loved one is your true presence.