-W.H. Auden
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- “Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.”
- “If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.”
- “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
- “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There’s no use in being a damn fool about it.”
- “When we suffer, instinctively we want to run away from it—through religion, through entertainment, reading books, through anything to get away from the suffering. Now if the mind is attentive and does not move away from suffering at all, then you will see that out of total attention comes not only energy—which means passion—but also that suffering comes to an end.”