Quotes About Focus

creating the practicing mind comes down to a few simple rules: • Keep yourself process-oriented. • Stay in the present. • Make the process the goal and use the overall goal as a rudder to steer your efforts. • Be deliberate, have an intention about what you want to accomplish, and remain aware of that intention.

The first step toward patience is to become aware of when your internal dialogue is running wild and dragging you with it.

Most of us spend very little time in the present moment. We usually are either thinking about something that has not yet happened (and may never happen) or reliving something that already has. We waste each moment's opportunity to experience what

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything. When you stay on purpose, focused in the present moment, the goal comes toward you with frictionless ease.

Getting the goal and achieving it are worlds apart.

all the thoughts of what had to get done tomorrow. It

The paradox of slowness is that you will find you accomplish the task more quickly and with less effort because you are not wasting energy. Try it and you will see.

When you focus your mind on the present moment, on the process of what you are doing right now, you are always where you want to be and where you should be. All your energy goes into what you are doing. However, when you focus your mind on where you want to end up, you are never where you are, and you exhaust your energy with unrelated thoughts instead of putting it into what you are doing.

If you are not in control of your thoughts, then you are not in control of yourself. Without self-control, you have no real power,

Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering?

I ain't stopping for nobody. I got work to do and I'm gonna do it

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

Take care of the heart, and the head will take care of itself.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Si quiere usted alcanzar la excelencia, puede lograrlo hoy mismo. A partir de este segundo, no haga ningún trabajo que no sea excelente.

In meditation there must be a staying of the thoughts upon the object. A man who rides quickly through a town or village: he minds nothing. But an artist who is looking on a curious piece views the whole portraiture of it, he observes the symmetry and proportion, he minds every shadow and color.

Worldly business often crowds into our duties, and while our mouths are speaking to God, our hearts are thinking of the world:

I can't look at everything hard enough!

She's been at his apartment in Brooklyn, complaining about his couch being covered in cat hair. Bryan had taken her face in his hands and said, " You know what your problem is, Smita? You focus on the cat hair. Try focusing on the cat. Perhaps that's what love was--an embrace of the commonplace? Perhaps that's where wisdom lay--in recognizing the grandeur of everyday domestic life?

serenity (shamatha)