Quotes About Focus

But as long as negativity is there, use it. Use it as a kind of signal that reminds you to be more present.

your presence, your consciousness

Cuanto más se enfoque en el tiempo — pasado y futuro — más pierde el Ahora, lo más precioso que hay.

Feel your whole body from within, as a single field of energy. It is almost as if you were listening or reading with your whole body. Let this be your practice in the days and weeks to come. Do not give all your attention away to the mind and the external world. By all means focus on what you are doing, but feel the inner body at the same time whenever possible. Stay rooted within. Then observe how this changes your state of consciousness and the quality of what you are doing.

Identification with the mind gives it more energy; observation of the mind withdraws energy from it.

Pregúntese a sí mismo qué "problema" tiene ahora mismo, no el año que viene, mañana o dentro de cinco minutos. ¿Qué está mal en este momento? Usted puede siempre enfrentar el Ahora, pero nunca puede enfrentar el futuro, ni tiene que hacerlo. La respuesta, la fuerza, la acción o el recurso correctos estarán allá cuando los necesite, no antes ni después.

If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.

Do not give all your attention away to the mind and the external world. By all means focus on what you are doing, but feel the inner body at the same time whenever possible. Stay rooted within. Then observe how this changes your state of consciousness and the quality of what you are doing. Please don't just accept or reject what I am saying. Put it to the

full attention means full acceptance.

Nur wenn du dich auf den gegenwärtigen Augenblick ausrichtest, gewinnst du Zugang zu dieser Kraft.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do then is "ride the wave.

to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed.

convierta en un hábito entrar dentro de usted de inmediato y concentrarse lo más que pueda en el campo de energía interior de su cuerpo.

O cuando se lave las manos, preste atención a todas las percepciones sensoriales asociadas con la actividad:

Stay present, stay conscious.

Tú estás en el aquí y ahora, mientras que tu mente está en el futuro.

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.

las personas no saben escuchar porque la mayor parte de su atención está ocupada en pensar. Prestan más atención a eso que a lo que la otra persona está diciendo

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action — just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

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.

A veces, simplemente, basta con cambiar la manera de hacerlo. El «cómo» siempre es más importante que el «qué». Trata de conceder mucha más atención a lo que haces que al resultado que esperas obtener. Centra toda tu atención en lo que el momento te ofrezca.

Todos los artistas verdaderos, lo sepan o no, crean desde un lugar de no-mente, de quietud interior. La mente entonces da forma a la visión o impulso creativo. Incluso los grandes científicos han dicho que sus grandes logros creativos llegaron en un momento de quietud mental.

To always have some of your attention in the inner energy field of your body. To feel the body from within, so to speak. Body awareness keeps you present. It anchors you in the Now.

Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself.