Quotes About Preoccupation

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Preoccupation with the self consumes psychic energy because in everyday life we often feel threatened.

It could be said that Christianity's "psychology" was its preoccupation with sin, guilt, penance, and authority.

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

Obsessions are the only things that matter.

Heldmann believes that things that get in the way of listening include preoccupation with your own point, distracting thoughts, deciding that you already know what the other person is going to say, and twisting the speaker's message to fit your expectations.

We then devolve into a polarized process of negative-noticing – an incessant preoccupation with defects and hazards. We perseverate about everything that has gone or could go wrong.

I definitely get where these questions are coming from, and remember: I don't think "knowing" or seeking to think "correctly" about God is wrong. Not at all. The problem is preoccupation with correct thinking—mistaking our thoughts about God with the real thing, and then to base our faith on holding on to that certainty.