A Quote by Eckhart Tolle

Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance. — © Eckhart Tolle
Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.
The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.
I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady in the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein.
People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.
You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment.
Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.
In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.
Attention is the key; for where man's attention goes, there goes his energy, and he himself can only follow.
All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.
To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending.
If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.
My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.
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