Quotes About Inner focus

To turn the mind inside, stop it from going outside, and then to concentrate all its powers, and throw them upon the mind itself, in order that it may know its own nature, so that it will analyse itself, as it were, is indeed very hard work. Yet that is the only way to anything like a scientific approach towards the subject. Now

I've always been quiet in the dressing room before the game. I try to focus and give everything.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life.

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

I'm really good at not moving my legs.

It is a bit like television sports commentary. There is what is actually going on in the game, and then there is the endless commentary. When you begin a formal meditation practice, it is almost inevitable that you will now be subject to meditation commentary to one degree or another. It can fill the space of the mind. Yet it is not the meditation any more than the play-by-play is the game itself.

Focus enough energy inward. Before befriending others, you have to be your own friend. Before making others happy, you have to make yourself happy. It's not called selfishness; its called personal development.

I shuddered at the thought and from that point on did my best to stop thinking.

In the distinguished book Zazen no Shokei by the lay Zen Master Kawajiri Hogin, he writes, "Because zazen is training to realize the One Mind of yourself, it is a mistake to set up an aim outside of yourself … Not setting up an aim is the true aim.

The real test of spiritual focus is being able to bring your thoughts and imagination under control. Is your mind focused on the face of an idol? Is the idol yourself? Is it your work?