Quotes About Focus

draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present...

Certain things in the past didn't go the way you wanted them to go. You are still resisting what happened in the past, and now you are resisting what is. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

In a true emergency, the mind stops; you become totally present in the Now, and something infinitely more powerful takes over.

Get out of your head and into the moment.

Problem means that you are dwelling on a situation mentally without there being a true intention or possibility of taking action now and that you are unconsciously making it part of your sense of self. You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing you can do now.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment.

through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now.

See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

I would say that the simple reason why the majority of scientists are not creative is not because they don't know how to think but because they don't know how to stop thinking!

You are aware of where you want to go, but you honor and give your fullest attention to the step that you are taking at this moment.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas

You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing that you can do now.

Focus not on the one hundred things that you will or may have to do at some future time but on the one thing that you can do now. This doesn't mean you should not do any planning. It may well be that planning is the one thing you can do now. But make sure you don't start to run "mental movies," project yourself into the future, and so lose the Now. Any action you take may not bear fruit immediately. Until it does — do not resist what is.

create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

Sto se više usredoto?ite na vrijeme - na prošlost i budu?nost - to više propuštate Sadašnji trenutak, najdragocjenije što postoji.

Learn to use time in the practical aspects of your life - we may call this clock time - but immediately return to present-moment awareness when those practical matters have been dealt with.

When you are on a journey, it is certainly helpful to know where you are going or at least the general direction in which you are moving, but don't forget: The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it.

Your life situation may be full of problems — most life situations are — but find out if you have any problem at this moment. Not tomorrow or in ten minutes, but now. Do you have a problem now?

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place

How to stop creating time? Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation. Always say "yes" to the present moment. What

Na trenutak morate odložiti osobnu prtljagu problema, prošlosti i budu?nosti, kao i sve svoje znanje; ina?e ?ete vidjeti, ali ne?ete vidjeti, ?ut ?ete, ali ne?ete ?uti. Potrebna je vaša apsolutna prisutnost.

Problem" means that you are dwelling on a situation mentally without there being a true intention or possibility of taking action now and that you are unconsciously making it part of your sense of self. You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing that you can do now.