“Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.” HumansSufferingHumanityIndividualHuman BeingsAttentionBuddhismHarmonyPlanesDharma 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.” HumansWellsMatterTogetherLife IsAttentionMindfulnessAwakenedTrue NatureClosenessEnriching Book:Life Beyond Belief: Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice Source: Life Beyond Belief: Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice
“In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe.” HumansHas BeensEarthUniverseExistenceAttentionConditionsCenturyDemandRelationEnvironmentalRageCeaseAbandonWillingnessParticipationAssaultAutisticLiturgy Book:Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth Source: Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth
“In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.” PeopleThinkingHumansDoeArtLeftAttentionOne ThingElementsAccidentsSufficientHuman Will Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.” IfsHumansHas BeensPayAttentionFocusKeysDevelopmentPrimariesPay AttentionEffectivenessShort Time Author:Robert Genn
“I learned to observe other people - that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill so I don’t think I’m better equipped than other human beings.” PeopleHumansNaturalPayAttentionTeachSkillsPay Attention Author:Natalie Portman
“Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.” HumansWellsHappensCertainInterestingAttentionCircumstancesExperimentsPsychologicalFragileEntityTrafficFluidThreshold Author:Tom Vanderbilt
“Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.” HumansMadeDiesForceAttentionSubjectsMankindHonestDegreesPrejudiceInnovationProductionsUnconsciousConsiderationNew ThingsHuman WisdomEarly Death Author:Bill Vaughan
“I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantHumansArtWholeFeltAttentionStyleProductsAchievementUniqueArt IsRecognitionPay AttentionAccomplishmentCoastHuman ExperienceCarpet Author:Bill Reid
“The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.” HumansLeftAttentionImpossibleCenturyTasksRewardsFinancialPhilosopherSatisfactionGreekSignificanceFormulasThinkerSpheresLeisureLackingUnlikelyBourgeoisDrainedGreek PhilosopherUnproductiveHaphazardDilettantes Author:Alain de Botton