Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening
At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.
Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.
The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.
We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.
Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes.
Mr. Thornton felt that in this influx no one was speaking to Margaret, and was restless under this apparent neglect. But he never went near her himself; he did not look at her. Only, he knew what she was doing — or not doing — better than anyone else in the room. Margaret was so unconscious of herself, and so much amused by watching other people, that she never thought whether she was left unnoticed or not.
Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.
Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth"... The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.
Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.
Watching the ball is always a good starting point.
Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.
Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.
To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact…moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.
Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.
When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?
