Attentiveness Quote by Tom Chatfield

“Our belief in a world external to ourselves, filled with things and people that are not us, is an overwhelming fact of our existence.…

— James M. Corrigan

When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same…

— Swami Vivekananda

“our difficulty in accurately recognizing random arrangements of events can lead us to believe things that are not true—to believe something is systematic, ordered,…

— Thomas Gilovich

“Observations are determined by the ability to fully perceive actually what exists rather that what is believed or desired to be real.”

— Steven Redhead

As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our…

— Emile Chartier

We know the presence of each passing moment by its activity, but the power and eternity of the moment can only be realized through…

— Guy Finley

One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without…

— Michael Crichton

[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no…

— E. O. Wilson

“In the spiritual world many forms of the physical universe that are potentially effective can be perceived but with regard to time, we can…

— Stephen Richards

“Time is a structured perception towards observable changes.”

— Toba Beta

“Extraordinary moments often involve a sense of connection, as well as communication, with something that we intuitively know goes well beyond this plane of…

— Susan Barbara Apollon

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

— Heinz von Foerster