Mary Oliver Quotes

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.

To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

Compassion begins with attention.

We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

All you have to do is be able to feel.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

I'm very big on feeling.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

I respect anybody that is very in tune with their feelings.