Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
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Amit Ray
It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.
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Criss Jami
I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself.
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Toba Beta
To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’...
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David Foster Wallace
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
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Mary Oliver
More Quotes By Willa Cather
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.
I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is...
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
