“There are primarily two ways people can drain your energy. They can get you to want them or what they have or they can get you to fear them. In order to drain you they must get into your attention field.” PeopleWayWantTwoOrderEnergyAttentionFieldsTwo WaysDrains Author:Frederick Lenz
“People try to get into your life. They try and keep you off-balance, keep you from making good decisions that will empower you - because if your attention field is sharp - you will see if anyone is in your life for ill reasons.” PeopleIfsTryingReasonDecisionAttentionFieldsBalanceIllEmpoweringGood Decision Author:Frederick Lenz
“Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in.” SelfSeemsAttentionConsciousnessAwarenessFieldsIgnoranceBuddhismUltimateWrapping Author:Frederick Lenz
“Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.” WaySelfLife IsAttentionAwarenessFieldsBuddhismIllusionReflectionInvisiblePerceive Author:Frederick Lenz
“A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention field.” ChildrenHardSidesAttentionTeachingAwarenessFieldsBuddhismAdultsClay Author:Frederick Lenz
“We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.” IdeasHumanityHouseAttentionEnvironmentToo MuchOur LivesFieldsBuddhismSquaresOur Environment Author:Frederick Lenz
“Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.” IfsShouldMatterStatesAttentionConsciousnessMeditationFieldsHealthBuddhismEatingDietsPreferenceAvoidedAthleticsMammalsPersonal Preferences Author:Frederick Lenz
“For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.” PeopleWorldHardStatesEnoughBodyLightActionSpiritualUniverseCoursesLeftAttentionSeeingAirFieldsPressureWideSensesInvisibleDevelopingVisibleCorrespondenceGreat Spiritual Author:Evelyn Underhill
“When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.” MindHeartStillsLightBeautifulAttentionMeditationConditionsFieldsBuddhismQuietEgoSubtleJoyousEcstatic Author:Frederick Lenz
“I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.” ThinkingBodyAttentionFieldsPay AttentionJust Do ItDaydreaming Author:Greg Maddux
“Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.” WayAttentionFieldsKarmaGood And BadBad Karma Author:Frederick Lenz
“Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of these fields of attention.” MeanRealityActionAttentionFieldsKarmaPlanes Author:Frederick Lenz
“The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.” PersonsBodyEnergyLevelsAttentionTeacherFieldsSeriesEnlightened Author:Frederick Lenz
“Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.” MenIdeasWomenAttentionFieldsLimitsProjectsEnlightenmentMen Women Author:Frederick Lenz
“Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow.” AttentionFieldsBuddhismCircumstancesFlowFollowingDharma Author:Frederick Lenz
“What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid.” AttentionClearAwarenessFieldsYogaKarmaSelflessKarma Yoga Author:Frederick Lenz
“When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your inner body as you listen.That takes attention away from thinking and creates a still space that enables you to truly listen without the mind interfering. You are giving the other person space-space to be. It is the most precious gift you can give.” ThinkingGivingFeelsMindPersonsStillsWholeBodyEnergySpaceAttentionFieldsListeningInterfereJust ListenPrecious GiftsEnergy Fields Author:Eckhart Tolle
“The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.” KindUseForcePowerfulAttentionConsciousnessModernFieldsReaderAreasAll KindsOperationsEnterpriseListenersViewersStagingOverloaded Author:Saul Bellow
“The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.” WholeAttentionEnvironmentFieldsEnvironmentalInvisible Author:Marshall McLuhan
“It will take about a month for that awareness to be fully absorbed and modify someone's attention field. During that period of time, a person who studies with me will meditate on their own, and apply those things that they have learned to their daily lives.” PersonsAttentionStudyAwarenessFieldsBuddhismMonthsPeriodsDaily LifeRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.” MindPersonsStatesPhilosophyAttentionFieldsMeatAffectedState Of Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory, but rather the internal power and intelligence that you have amassed in other lifetimes.” MeanDoeMemoriesAttentionAwarenessFieldsEnlightenmentPaidLifetimeInternalsConcentrationCycles Author:Frederick Lenz
“Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.” TryingSuccessTurnsWinningAttentionCareersFieldsBuddhismApproachPerfectionOrganizationPlaying FieldsBusiness Organization Author:Frederick Lenz
“Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.” MomentsUseAttentionStudyGrowingFieldsAbuseStrongerMysticismGetting Stronger Author:Frederick Lenz
“If we have a giant mansion and we don't keep it as well as that room, then our yoga isn't good and our attention field will be very poor and we won't have power, and we'll be totally hooked on the transient .” IfsWellsPoorRoomsAttentionFieldsYogaGiantsMysticismHookedTransientMansionsGaining Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“It takes many years to become proficient in energy conservation. But it is something that happens. You get continually stronger. You see your attention field is far different than it ever was before.” YearsDifferentHappensEnergyAttentionFieldsLosingStrongerMysticismConservationLosing PowerEnergy Conservation Author:Frederick Lenz
“I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.” PeopleArtMomentsFactsBeautifulDiesAttentionFieldsArt IsDesertSubstanceThirstVery BeautifulOasisMirages Author:Marcel Duchamp
“He said I couldn't do (off the field) what I did when I was 23 or 24, and I paid attention to him. Damn it, I got a trainer and went to spring training in the best shape of my career and in 1985 had the best season I ever had and we won the World Series. Before that, I didn't know how long I was going to play. That talk with Mr. Fogelman was the most inspiring talk I ever had with anyone.” KnowsWorldLongSaidPlayAttentionCareersKnow HowFieldsShapesSpringTrainingSeasonsPaidSeriesDamnTrainersWorld SeriesSpring TrainingMost Inspiring Author:George Brett
“I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and catastrophes which might result for mankind from an irresponsible attitude. In this field my wish is for Iran to put all her efforts towards the peaceful use of atomic energy. We shall continue to co-operate with all the nations of the world to attain this end in the interests of human society.” WorldHumansEndsUseMightEnergyNationsWishInterestRealizingResultsEffortPayAttentionAttitudeMankindDangerFieldsParticularNuclearPeacefulIranCatastropheIrresponsibleHuman SocietyMy WishNuclear EnergyAtomic Energy Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing theories existing in this field one must first gain a clear understnding of the concept "science"; for it is as a part of science that mathematics originally took its place in human thought.” FirstsHumansDealsAttentionClearSubjectsFieldsTheoryDevelopmentConceptsGainsAskingMathematicsFoundationOpposingHuman Thought Author:L. E. J. Brouwer
“The only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished.” PeopleMeanPersonsDoeGamesWishAttentionFiguresFieldsTypeAccomplishedDedicatedArrogantMisunderstoodTeammateCockyArrogant People Author:Rickey Henderson
“Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.” IfsWayNeedsRealJobsAttentionMissingFieldsDependsLife And DeathManipulateGood WayDeadlineProcrastinatorTeaming Up Author:John Perry