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“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.”

Way Self Life Is Attention Awareness Fields Buddhism Illusion Reflection Invisible Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Living an awakened life [...] is just a matter of where our attention is being placed. It is possible for our human-beingness and our true nature or presence to exist wonderfully well together, enriching each other through their closeness. It is through the power of our attention that we experience one or the other or both.”

Humans Wells Matter Together Life Is Attention Mindfulness Awakened True Nature Closeness Enriching

Book:Life Beyond Belief: Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice

Source: Life Beyond Belief: Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice

“The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.”

Way May Long Art Life Is Pay Attention Struggle Gone Willing Honor Long Time Paid Regard Notes Rewards Privilege Creator Sensible Citing Art Life

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.”

Men Should Young Life Is Attention Half Boys Duty Battle Aim Contact Young Man Officials Spheres Battle Of Life

Book:The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Source: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.”

Happens Care Action Life Is Attention Meaningful Our Actions

Book:Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

Source: Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

“if you don't think that all life is improvisation, then you haven't been paying attention. Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.”

Ifs Thinking Happens Life Is Attention Plans Havens Pay Attention Improvisation

Author:Joan Rivers

“Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.”

Heart Seems Life Is Attention Moral Ignored Moral Education

Book:The Intimate Journal of George Sand

Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand

“We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.”

World Way Needs Wells Life Is Values Pay Attention Trouble Source Warm Educated Pay Attention Makers Educate Happy Life Secular Well Educated Trouble Maker

Author:Dalai Lama

“For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus centered not in reality itself but in his ideas of it. By focusing the mind wholly on each objects and every action, zazen strips it of extraneous thoughts and allows us to enter into a full rapport with life.”

Men Mind Ideas Reality Action Life Is Attention Opinion Impossible Objects Ordinary Reflection Prejudice Ordinary Man Rapport Checkerboard

Book:The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

Source: The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

“The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on time. My lieutenant would say, 'If you don't, you die.' In many ways, life is the same. If you don't pay attention to a timeline, you lose out on the ability to accomplish the task at hand.”

Ifs Way Done Hands Life Is Dies Loses Ability Pay Attention Military Taught Tasks Importance Accomplish Missions Pay Attention Timely Completing Lieutenants Timelines Task At Hand

Author:Don Young

“Rich people don't have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their “work” is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention. Why didn't I reread my F. Scott Fitzgerald sooner? I might have saved myself some time.”

People Stills Might Life Is Literature Attention Rich Saved Life And Death Thrive Capture Thrill Rich People Ornaments Scott Fitzgerald

Author:Sergio Troncoso