Jeff Buckley Quotes

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.

I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.

Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.

The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.

Every moment is beautiful; delicious even! Every moment I'm learning and living in a way I never have before. Being present in a way I never have before. Existing in moments I never have before.

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?