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Whatever your motivation – attention is the link between your goal and the resources you bring to it.
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…extrinsic focusing on trouncing the competition or a monetary reward can actually decrease our intrinsic motivation to pursue a goal.
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how you decide to spend your time and make other choices that affect your quality of life is closely bound up with attention…
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In the short term, the interplay of attention and motivation is crucial to taking care of business, and in the long term, it helps to make you who you are.
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…our customary focus on things temporal and material is the major cause of human misery, because it distracts us from attending to timeless, formless true reality.
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…the awareness of true reality is an experience, not an idea, that in fact requires a ‘radical refusal of thoughts’ in favor of a simple state of attending to the moment.
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In everyday life, most opportunities to build character are modest in scope and easily missed if you’re not paying attention.
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It’s often said that virtue is its own reward, but love and its corollary of kindness confer other major benefits on those who practice them.
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Whatever your age or gender, the great obstacle to enjoying the moment’s delights is not paying attention to them.
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Attending to pleasure is a reward in itself, but savoring also boosts your quotient of positive emotion, which in turn expands your focus and may confer health benefits…
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