Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

We are defined by how we place our attention.

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

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.

The breath of the mind is attention.

To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.

Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Attention is the material I work with.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

Presence is more than just being there.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

You need to pay attention to the little things as well as the big things.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

I pay attention to every minute of the day.