Whatever is in your face is 10,000 times better than whatever is not in your face and deserves 10,000 times more attention than whatever is not in your face.
As you gain awareness of the many threads of reality that exist within your field of possibilities, you can consciously choose the thread you wish to energize. Even if a thread of reality does not seem very "probable" at the moment, you can begin to bring your focus and attention to that time-line. As long as you are willing to take action, and keep on taking action to create a reality shift, you will eventually make the shift.
Knowledge stands on one leg, and requires balance and attention.
Truth stands on its own two strong legs, and requires no proof.
If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them with your attention to them. Without knowing about Law of Attraction, you have -- through your old habit of observation -- achieved vibrational harmony with the parts of them that you do not like, and you keep summoning those parts from them by your constant vibrational offering of them.
It's not necessary for you to exacerbate your contrast with struggle in order to get it into a higher place. It is not necessary to suffer in order to give birth to desire. But when you have suffered and you have given birth to desire, so what? You've got a desire. Turn your attention to the desire. Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff --- Abraham
“Beliefs can easily cause us to become blind to the obvious. Recent research on ‘inattentional blindness’ has shown that even minor tweaks to one’s expectations can cause a form of blindness. A simple experiment developed by University of Illinois psychologist Daniel Simons provided a dramatic demonstration of this effect. …
Simon’s experiment consists of a twenty-five second video clip of six people playing a basketball game. Three are dressed in white T-shirts and three in black T-shirts. The white team is passing a basketball amongst themselves, and the black team is doing likewise. During the game, a person dressed in a black gorilla suit calmly walks into the middle of the game, beats its chest, and then walks off. The gorilla is not understated or camouflaged – it’s blatantly obvious. And yet the majority of people viewing the clip do not see the gorilla provided they’re given a very simple instruction: count the number of basketballs tossed between the members wearing white T-shirts. This minor deflection of attention is enough to cause complete blindness to something as obvious as a gorilla. The power of deflecting attention is well known to stage magicians, who specialize in creating such illusions.”
Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to
be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word. The unmanifested is present in this world as silence. All you have to do is pay attention to it.
The greatest appointment you have in life is with yourself. Be sure to show up on time and pay attention.
The Path to Union
By means of Invocation, the being awakens,
and awakening becomes fullness.
By means of balancing, fullness becomes
internal wholeness.
By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal
wholeness becomes Communion.
By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion
becomes Union.
If we refuse to think of anything except what we are doing or the person that we are with, we develop the habit of being present to the present moment. In a way, the present moment becomes as sacred as being in church. Far better to be present to your duty if you are a bartender, than to be present in church and to be thinking about being in a bar. At least you are present to yourself when you are paying attention to what you are doing.
Attention, then, is a way of doing what we are doing. It cracks the crust of the false self (our psychological awareness of daily life) in which we are the center of the universe while everything else is circling around our particular needs or desires. This is an illusion, but unfortunately it is the heritage we all bring with us from early life.
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).
I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both.
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.
So we are left with three intuitive faculties: that which enables us to know first principles in scientific and mathematical inquiries by somehow being able to grasp the heart of a matter, or to make a leap from one stage of knowledge to another, whether it be practical knowledge or scientific knowledge; that which enables us to ratiocinate; and that which enables us to make judgments. The first implies an awareness of our intellectual reasoning as well as our goal or ‘line’ of reasoning, and supplies us with the big leaps found in scientific and mathematical intuitions. As well there are the micro-intuitions that effectuate a bridging of the myriad little steps of ratiocination that take place in our reasoning. This shows an awareness of our experiential perceptions and our desired goals, enabling us to act quicker and more effectively than ratiocination, with its otherwise impossible algorithmic and heuristic processes, would be capable of alone. The third shows an awareness of our desires as well as our moral sentiments, and provides us with the result that best matches both. The similarity of these faculties is that they are each forms of an active awareness that is not just a passive sense or faculty, but which is the motivating or directing force behind our acts. And these three forms of active awareness, when reflected upon together, take on the appearance not of individual and separate faculties, but one faculty that is omnipresent within the context of our ‘selves’, and which can focus upon the different spheres of human experience, deliberation, and willful intent. In short it can “pay attention†to each and every facet that lays before it. We perceive them as separate faculties because of our habitual application of dichotomization, basing a distinction upon the separate fields in which intuitive awareness participates. This sense is clearly transcendent to our reasoning about the world, our actions, goals, desires, and moral sentiments. We rely upon it for our apodictic ideas.
It doesn't cost a thing to pay attention.
Pay attention to your high-energy personal daily clock.
In today’s fast-paced work environment, many around you will try to consume your time and attention, while making sure you know they do not have any time for you.
Home and work life can blend successfully if you set boundaries and treat the temporal and attention-management balancing act with proper respect.
Working underneath others often means an ongoing contest to win their attention.
What is required to catch the attention of colleagues or clients is the ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and to the point.
In all enterprises, it’s the business model that deserves detailed attention and understanding.
To capture someone’s attention, you are required to look at the issue from that person’s perspective.
If you’re wasting your time or your attention, then start investing it wisely.
Children are perhaps the most natural attention barometers, because they will pay close attention to someone who is friendly, and they will often shy away from someone who is friendly, and they will often shy away from someone who is visibly distracted or grumpy.
The retro art of expressing thanks or congratulations or regret with a handwritten note is the sure way to secure another’s attention.
In a world where a handwritten letter is an anomaly, attention to different forms of text has changed dramatically in the last decade.
The Hawaii Ironman Triathlon is also the ultimate attention-training exercise for well-conditioned athletes.
We all have our charity cases that we give our time and attention to, but be realistic if someone is burning your time.
Pay attention to the details of communication.
