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The more attention we pay to the moment, the simpler it becomes. Because you are no longer juggling endless loops of thought at once. You’re exclusively focused on the precious moment you are in. And in doing so: you expand into it. In focusing your attention on one point—precisely where you are—you channel your infinite attention directly into it,
... See moreIsabel Hazan • distillation
Concentration: Imagine love to be a substance spread around you everywhere. Feel yourself sucking this surrounding substance into your chest where it becomes concentrated. Transmission: Send this concentrated love toward the other person. If you are not in their presence, direct it toward an image of them in your mind. It’s like completely exhaling
... See morePhil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You
Convergent focus is a single-minded or narrow focus on an object—anything having matter. That’s the kind of focus you’re displaying in my meditations when you rest your attention in a specific place in your body. It’s the same kind of focus you use when you pay attention to objects in your environment.
Joe Dispenza • Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon
Meditation is concentration, and concentration becomes, finally, consecration.
Eknath Easwaran • Passage Meditation - A Complete Spiritual Practice: Train Your Mind and Find a Life that Fulfills (Essential Easwaran Library Book 1)
Concentration of the mind is stopping it from running around from one object to another in order to stay with just one object. We stay with one object in order to observe it and to look deeply into it. In this way, stopping and observing become one.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On Choosing the Right Goal, Focus, and Perseverance | James Clear
Concentration is the second step in study. If, in addition to bringing the mind repeatedly to the subject matter, the person will concentrate on what is being studied, learning is vastly increased.