Quotes About Focus

Mindfulness has been called the heart of Buddhist meditation.

you be aware of this as you practice?

Meditar consiste simplemente en prestar atención a la vida como si en verdad importase.

Perhaps over time we can adjust our default setting to one of greater mindfulness rather than of mindlessness and being lost in thought. As

vemos ciertas cosas, pero que también, al mismo tiempo, quizás no vemos las más importantes.

are using the word practice here in a special way. It does not mean a rehearsal or a perfecting of some skill so that we can put it to use at some other time. In the meditative context, practice means "being in the present on purpose." The means and the end of meditation are really the same. We are not trying to get somewhere else, only working

This is the case because, as we noted earlier, it is not the breath that is most important here, but the awareness itself. And the awareness can be of any aspect of your experience, not just your breathing—because it is always the same awareness, whatever the chosen object or objects of attention.

The discipline I am referring to is really the willingness to bring the spaciousness and clarity of awareness back over and over again to whatever is going on — even as we feel we are being pulled in a thousand different directions.

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.

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. PETER MATTHIESSEN, The Snow Leopard

La pleine conscience signifie « faire attention » de manière particulière : délibérément, au moment présent et sans jugements de valeurs.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and non judgementally

But meditation is not just about sitting, either. It is about stopping and being present, that is all. Mostly we run around doing. Are you able to come to a stop in your life, even for one moment? Could it be this moment? What would happen if you did?

we have more efficient, more focused, and more effective ways of achieving the ends we want.

What happens now is what matters.

immersed in a seemingly never-ending stream of thoughts, coming willy-nilly one after another in rapid succession.

How you are in relationship to this moment influences the quality and character of the next moment. In this way, we can shape the future by taking care of the present. What a remarkable opportunity.

Either wherever you go there you are or wherever you go there you aren't.

However, when we start paying attention a little more closely to the way our own mind actually works, as we do when we meditate, we are likely to find that much of the time our mind is more in the past or the future than it is in the present.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention.

It involves intentionally doing only one thing at a time and making sure I am here for it.

When we are anxious about what is going to happen next, we are not staying in our now!

Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water.

Staying aloof from what's keeping you away from Him is not works.