Quotes About Observation

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. R. D. LAING

If we are unaware of what we are doing a good deal of the time, and we don't particularly like the way things turn out in our lives, perhaps it's time to pay closer attention, to be more in touch, to observe the choices we make and their consequences down the road.

Awareness requires only that we pay attention and see things as they are. It doesn't require that we change anything.

What does happen as we intentionally pay attention to our breathing is that we realize pretty quickly that we are

Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.

The challenge of mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different.

we have got to pause in our experience long enough to let the present moment sink in; long enough to actually feel the present moment, to see it in its fullness, to hold it in awareness and thereby come to know and understand it better.

This is the case because, as we noted earlier, it is not the breath that is most important here, but the awareness itself. And the awareness can be of any aspect of your experience, not just your breathing—because it is always the same awareness, whatever the chosen object or objects of attention.

M]indfulness does not involve trying to get anywhere or feel anything special. Rather it involves allowing yourself to be where you already are, to become more familiar with your own actual experience moment by moment.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and non judgementally

We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.

I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.

Sometimes I like [being famous], sometimes I don't. I've always been a people watcher. I like to go to malls and just sit, and I can't do that very easily anymore.

While doing an enquiry on renowned horror author, "Edgar Allen Poe" I was astonished to notice how more successful his biographical books sold compared to his own books.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn't mean you cannot see them.