Attention
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We reject things that have the slightest offensiveness to us. We don’t like it at all. And if we do like something, if there’s a slight suggestion of promise, we like it so much that we want to get right into it. The result is that usually we don’t really look at anything at all.
—Chögyam Trungpa
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What you put your attention on grows.
―Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small it takes time—we haven't time—and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
—Georgia O'Keeffe
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I don’t know exactly
what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention.
―Mary Oliver
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Attention is the beginning of devotion
On looking: A walker's guide to the art of observation
Mister Rogers and the art of paying attention
The great fracturing of American attention
The value of 'deep work' in an age of distraction