A Collection of Quotes About Awareness & Attention
/A Collection of Quotes About Awareness & Attention
Insight is awareness free from interpretation. —Andy Pike
When you pay profound attention, profound things can happen. —David Whyte
Attention or awareness is the secret of life and the heart of practice. —Charlotte Joko Beck
Attention is the highest form of love. —Unknown
I began to discover that there were a multitude of ways of perceiving, ways that were controllable by what I can only describe as an internal gesture of the mind. It was as if one’s self-awareness had a central point of interest being, the very core of one’s I-ness. And this core of being could, I now discovered, be moved about at will; but to explain just how it is done to someone who has never felt it for himself is like trying to explain how to move one’s ears. —Marion Milner in A Life of One’s Own
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. —Herbert Simon
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.
—Wu-Men