"In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice."
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"Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else."
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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
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"Attention is the beginning of devotion."
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"Pay attention to that which sees the mind."
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"That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction."
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"When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention."
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"How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance."
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"If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time."
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"Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind."
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"When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without."
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"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them."
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"Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you."
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"You do not have to have money to attract money, but you cannot feel poor and attract money. The key is, you have to find ways of improving the way you feel from right where you stand before things can begin to change: By softening your attention to the things that are going wrong, and by beginning to tell stories that lean more in the direction of what you want instead of in the direction of what you have got, your vibration will shift; your point of attraction will shift - and you will get different results."
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"Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself."
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"If your attention is focused only on the result, then you are no longer in the process. But if you're in the process, then the result is guaranteed."
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"A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances."
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"Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety."
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"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
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"There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them."
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