Quotes about Attentiveness

But just remember: a woman's like a rose; if you treat her right, she'll bloom, if you don't, she'll wilt.

To be silent does not mean to be inactive; rather it means to breathe in the will of God, to listen attentively and be ready to obey.4 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditating on the Word.

But this is what servant-hood within the fellowship of believers is all about: being alert to the little things that need to be done and then doing them.

When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out, know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice.

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

I thought perhaps it was more important to listen than to be heard.

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

Getting out of the way and listening is not something that comes easily, either in art or in prayer.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

Focus equals feeling.