Quotes About Attunement

A part of me tried to fabricate reasons in my mind why it was too dangerous, or why it couldn't be possible. But I knew the truth — there was a part of me that was just afraid of change. And another part that was afraid of losing what made me special. I'd risked my life for that attunement. Was it really fair for others to get them for free? Perhaps even any attunement of their choice? But that was an inherently selfish line of thinking.

Headaches from using my attunement? I could deal with them. Existential terror at the possibility of destroying my own mind? Pretty much routine at this point. Doing paperwork for the government?

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Although the possibility of emotional trauma is ever-present, so too is the possibility of forming bonds of deep emotional attunement within which devastating emotional pain can be held, rendered more tolerable, and, hopefully, eventually integrated.

She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time.

Hume and Kant set the foundations in their work for the arguments that would make racism untenable. They helped to expose its fundamental flaws. For instance, Hume argued "that morality is based on humans' natural attunement to one another's feelings and a discomfort at sensing others' discomfort that can be elevated into more impartial justice.

Someone once said, 'God is simple, all else is complex.' The more attuned you become to God, the simpler and more beautiful your life becomes.

Strange how, after deciding to take life as one finds it, life comes fawning to one's hand.

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

Therefore, reading and reacting to other people's behaviors, emotions, and attitudes have been hardwired into our brains. We are not only wired to connect, but we are also wired to attune to, resonate with, and learn from others.

Psalm 125 says, "God will be good to those who are in tune with Him." Notice, you can be in tune with God, or you can be out of tune. The way you get in tune is by thinking victorious, overcoming, faith-filled thoughts.

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

Your presence of mind becomes your thermostat of thought.

And note then: you can killjoy not as a deliberate or intentional act; you might even be trying to participate in the joy of others. You can killjoy because you are not properly attuned to the requirements of a social system.

sensory processing sensitivity

A good eye must be good to see whatsoever is to be seen, and not green things only. For that is proper to sore eyes. So must a good ear, and a good smell be ready for whatsoever is either to be heard, or smelt: and a good stomach as indifferent to all kinds of food, as a millstone is, to whatsoever she was made for to grind.

If you want to become life sensitive, a simple process that you do is this: make whatever you think and whatever you feel less important. Try and see for one day. Suddenly you will feel the breeze, the rain, the flowers and the people, everything in a completely different way. Suddenly the life in you becomes much more active and alive for your experience.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

A lot of folks, they got a little bit of shine to them. They don't even know it. But they always seem to show up with flowers when their wives are feelin blue with the monthlies, they do good on school tests they don't even study for, they got a good idea how people are feelin as soon as they walk into a room.

In order to discover who you are within, you need to attune your visionary world deep in your sub-conscience to the outward world and live it.

Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being.

Lord, free us from our self-deception and attune our hearts to your Spirit, that we might remember how you humbled yourself, and learn to serve one another, whatever our disagreements. Amen.

I think I'm just really sensitive to the world. I really feel like I spend a lot of time "turned off".

It doesn't matter what you say; more importantly, it's about your energy and ability to match (or have a slightly higher energy level) than the person you have chosen to interact with. You