Attention Quote by W. H. Auden Download Open image “To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself...” — W. H. Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Focus Oneself Pay Pay attention Prayer Praying
To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has… — Masahisa Goi Copy Share Image
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a manso concentrates his attentionon a landscape, a poem, a… — Wystan Hugh Auden Copy Share Image
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing,… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive.… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Prayer is the means by which God has established for God's people to invite the spiritual into the physical, and the invisible realm into… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets… — W. H. Auden Copy Share
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and I just had such a strong reaction to the prayer. And I was really emotionally - I felt really grounded at that time. And so to be in this prayer and the imam is doing the… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
