Frank Herbert Quotes

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

We see only that which we are.

Be mindful even if your mind is full

We believe that introducing surface-to-air missiles in Syria is going to change the balance of power on the ground. It will allow the moderate opposition to be able to neutralize the helicopters and aircraft that are dropping chemicals and have been carpet-bombing them, just like surface-to-air missiles in Afghanistan were able to change the balance of power there.

Let the breath lead the way.

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.

There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.

Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.

I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.

When you're in the arena...you just remember who the enemy is" - Haymitch