"To pay attention, this is our endless..." - Quote by Mary Oliver
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
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“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.”
“Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.”
“Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.”
More on Attention
“I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.”
“Where ever you are, be there totally.”
“An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.”