Robert Fulghum Quotes

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

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life. There is no limit to the kinds of changes that awareness can produce.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

The quality of our attention determines our experience.

Space really means the level of awareness or presence, not thinking. So, can you look at your partner and not think? Two conscious beings realize that the essence of the relationship is the space in it. Even when there is an egoic overlay, it is not too dense or heavy for you to sense the essence underneath it. You don't need to react to the egoic overlay. When you don't react to it you don't strengthen it.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

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

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

I just like being present.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.