Anxiety Quote by Alan Watts

Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to…

— Iain McGilchrist

Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend…

— James A.C. Brown

Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results…

— Robert M. Pirsig

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the…

— Eckhart Tolle

Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.

— Zicheng Hong

Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off.…

— Sakyong Mipham

Attention is what steers your perceptions; it's what controls your reality. It's the gateway to the mind.

— Apollo Robbins

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your…

— Eckhart Tolle

But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

— Rollo May

“Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several…

— William James

“In most people, the term “consciousness” identifies with that socially conditioned Ego. At a number of people this identification is so powerful that they…

— Frank M. Wanderer