Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

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

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.

What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.

What you keep before your eyes will affect you.

What you look at hard seems to look at you.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

Beauty can never really understand itself.