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“What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.”

Perfect Attention Buddhism Mindfulness Flow Harmony Dharma

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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.”

World Inspirational Made Soul Self Attention Vision This World Ocean Flow Rivers Paid Burden Made It Your Soul Streams Rise Above

Author:Rumi

“If I'm having relentless thoughts, I just won't shut up in my head. I know that if I put myself on the mat and just focus on a flow that I will transmute or I will transform, transfer the energy into some other act or put my attention somewhere else, I'll be back. I'll feel stronger not only in my body but most certainly in my brain.”

Ifs Knows Feels Body Energy Attention Brain Focus Flow Stronger Shut Up Somewhere Else Relentless Transfers

Author:Jason Mraz

“Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with such volatility and force that we simply perceive life correctly.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.”

Long Term Emotion Attention Brain Practice Study Meditation Blood Produce Flow Function Significant Long Term Related Andrew Cerebral Alterations Blood Flow

Book:Hallucinations

Source: Hallucinations

“Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. That is to say, one can feel a sense of flow in the stream of consciousness not dissimilar to the sense of flow in the movement of matter in general. May not thought itself thus be a part of reality as a whole? But then, what could it mean for one part of reality to 'know' another, and to what extent would this be possible?”

Thinking Knows Feels May Mean Matter Whole Shows Reality Process Attention Consciousness Movement Flow Careful Streams Stream Of Consciousness

Author:David Bohm

“Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography

“I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.”

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Author:Milla Jovovich

“Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.”

“The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.”

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Author:Marilyn Ferguson