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“The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles: Show up or choose to be present, Pay attention to what has heart and meaning, Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.”

Ifs Way Heart Shows Belief Simple Pay Attention Principles Practice Four Judgment Blame Pay Attention Outcomes Telling The Truth Basic Principles

Author:Angeles Arrien

“My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.”

People Ifs Belief Pay Attention Teach Dying Forgiving Pay Attention Sweat Small Things

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.”

Men Believe Belief Women Realizing Attention Balance Ego Essentials Enlightenment Superiors Permit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.”

World Way Young Next Found Belief Church Religious Attention Strange Paid Traditional Dragons Piety Pulpit Misplaced

Book:Tooth and Claw

Source: Tooth and Claw

“That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.”

Source: The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding

“Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.”

Facts Belief Attention

Author:William James