“We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.” ThinkingKnowsWayHeartSelfFactsEyeGrowsWalksAttentionBrainKnow HowSourceConsciousEarsFingersTrackDefinitionsDetailsBonesBreatheAcceptedLimitationConfinedDescribingClumsyInsufficient Author:Alan Watts
“It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature.” WorldLooksDifferentFeelingsLiteratureAttentionMoralImpossibleOrdinaryBibleBreatheAtmosphere Author:Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
“Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step.” IfsNextAttentionStepsFocusFeetPercentHundredBreatheSoleNext Steps Book:Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Edition Source: Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Edition
“They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.” MenPainAttentionDyingHarmonyTongueBreatheVainScarce Book:King Richard II: Third Series Source: King Richard II: Third Series