"Attention is the vital thing and there..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or straining. Attention has the openness of a young child not yet dominated by the conceptual mind.
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More on Attention
“Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.”
“All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.”
“A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.”
More on Presence
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.”
“Now is the time when your action is practice.”
“I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.”