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Plants in nature are created to be heliotropic, which makes it possible for them to receive the greatest amount of life-giving light that is possible. We could say that flowers, grasses and trees keep their "attention" on the sun for as long as they can. We on the other hand, are currently not heliotropic. We are self-tropic. As we are now we follow our own thoughts. We give our attention to what...
Our attention is precious. Our attention may be the most important thing that we own, and almost none of us own any of our own attention. Anybody can take it. A phone call can take it. The news can take it. Look in the mirror and it can be stolen. I'm looking in the mirror and I don't look anything like I'm supposed to look, and if I look in the mirror and I don't see what I like, where does my attention go?
Our work, in terms of reclaiming our right as human beings to be in relationship with what we choose to be in relationship with, begins with being able to see that we suffer because choices are made for us. And it's an unnecessary suffering.
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Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 30, 2018. "Double attention" is the unrivaled seed of higher self-knowledge... whose flowering is the Truth that sets one free.
"Double attention" is the unrivaled seed of higher self-knowledge... whose flowering is the Truth that sets one free.
In order to discover the excellence, the beauty, and the love your heart longs for, you must possess an essential skill used by ALL the great spiritual masters, artists, scientists, even athletes: Higher Attention. With it, you can connect to the very source of true stillness, strength, creativity, and love. Now YOU can learn this skill using the simple exercises in this transformational Course.
I have read in your works, with regards to various thoughts and feelings, that we should do the interior work of learning to look at "what is talking to us, and not where it is pointing". But when I try to look at some painful thought, it forces me to look at what it wants me to see! Then I lose myself again...only to find myself distracted by this. Please help! (From student correspondence)...
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Where is tomorrow's fear other than in today's imagination? And, if this is true -- and IT IS -- then what to do with our attention in the here and now? Let it be swallowed up in the dark shadow of what "may be"...or hold it in the Light of awareness where no shadow can dwell, let alone its fear?
A man is walking through his office when his boss walks by and gives him a blank look. The thought pops into the man's mind that his boss is criticizing him or doesn't like him. Now, as he starts to fear this idea -- a negative picture produced by his imagination -- his mind focuses its attention on this disturbing image. And the more he attends to this dark dream, the further into its labyrin...
The first step to breaking out of any rut in life is to no longer enable the parts of us that keep walking in them while wishing they weren't so deep! Learning to watch our own thoughts and feelings -- to be quietly attentive to what the mind is attending to in each moment -- ensures that we won't fall into these ditches, because our heightened level of attention keeps them from being dug! We...