Quotes About Focus

The bikku should not rest content until mental intoxicants are fully extinct.

The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.

When people focus on themselves rather than on their impact, lots of activity and effort get wasted on the wrong things.

There is no solution to the problem of lack of commitment, for example, without a solution to the bigger problem—the problem that I can't see that I'm not committed.

we should spend much more time and effort helping things go right than dealing with things that are going wrong.

every person who is burning time and energy seeking justification is doing so at the expense of the contribution he or she could be making to the overall results of the company.

Clyde had a soul that was not destined to grow up. He lacked decidedly that mental clarity and inner directing application that in so many permits them to sort out from the facts and avenues of life the particular thing or things that make for their direct advancement.

In this volatile business of ours, we can ill afford to rest on our laurels, even to pause in retrospect. Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. —Walt Disney

A mind too active is no mind at all. --Infirmity

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Know that life can only be found in the present moment.

Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

When you are washing the dishes, washing the dishes must be the most important thing in your life. Just as when you are drinking tea, drinking tea must be the most important thing in your life. Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole world revolves—slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

There are two ways to wash the dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in order to have clean dishes and the second is to wash the dishes to wash the dishes.

Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life. Don't be attached to the future. Don't worry about things you have to do. Don't think about getting up or taking off to do anything. Don't think about "departing.

While washing the dishes, you might be thinking about the tea afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way as quickly as possible in order to sit and drink tea. But that means that you are incapable of living during the time you are washing the dishes.

To be truly present we have to stop our thinking. This is the secret of success.

even if you turn off the TV, the TV in your mind continues to run. So you have to also stop the TV in your head.

If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.

The only moment to be alive is in the present moment.

Mindfulness frees us of forgetfulness and dispersion and makes it possible to live fully each minute of life. Mindfulness enables us to live.