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“We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen.”

Stills Eye Attention Practice Focus Minutes Reflection Ears Shoulders Admire Breathing Butterfly Her Beauty Inquiring

Book:The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind

Source: The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind

“And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears, and something starts to hum inside my head. Far off, voices try to bump up against me, but I repel them. My ears fill up with water and I focus on the humming in my head.”

World Trying Feelings Voice Water Attention Focus Ears Disappear Curious Emptiness Detachment Numb Bumps Numbness Humming

Book:Madness: A Bipolar Life

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

“A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.”

I Can Happens Certain Attention Audience Talent Demand Ears Bases Charisma Conductor

Author:Isaac Stern

“Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.”

Mind Reason Attention Half Knowledge Teaching Argument Ears Yield Inches Shallow Traitor Attention And Respect

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“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.”

“He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.”

Facts Jesus Christ Attention Jesus Christ Ears Soldier Details Afterlife Resurrection Attention To Detail

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.”

Different Enough Song Voice Imagination Attention Pages Ears Structure Sentences Dramatic Tone Prose Ingenuity

Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost