Personal Religion
“Give full attention and devotion to each act.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.” – Susan Sontag
“The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.” – W.H. Auden
“The real heroes aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention.” – John Green
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. This is practiced through attention. Seeing the world as it truly is.” – Iris Murdoch
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” - Mary Oliver
“It is no coincidence that the word religion comes from relegare, to focus the attention. All religious praxis is an exercise of attention. The temple is a place of deep attention. According to Malenbrache, attention is the soul’s natural prayer.” – Byung-Chul Han
Rumi (Coleman Barks): “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”