Quotes About Focus

See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it. Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. This implies that you also completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it.

ENLIGHTENMENT CONSCIOUSLY CHOSEN means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life. It means choosing to dwell in the state of presence rather than in time. It

you can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention

escoge tener la atención de su conciencia en el presente, más que en el pasado o en el futuro

If you have difficulty feeling your emotions, start by focusing attention on the inner energy field of your body. Feel the body from within. This will also put you in touch with your emotions

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

Close your eyes and say to yourself: I wonder what my next thought is going to be. Then become as alert as a cat watching a mouse hole. You may find that, as long as you are absolutely alert, the next thought does not arise

How" is always more important than "what." See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

Lo que te hace seguir adelante es la esperanza, pero la esperanza hace que estés enfocado en el futuro, y ese enfoque permanente perpetúa tu negación del ahora y, por tanto, tu infelicidad.

Body awareness keeps you present. It anchors you in the Now (see chapter 6).

Vuélvase intensamente con-sciente del momento presente. Esto es algo profundamente satisfactorio. De esa forma usted aparta la conciencia de la actividad de su mente y crea una brecha de no-mente en la que usted está muy alerta y consciente, pero no pensando. Esa es la esencia de la meditación.

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 the past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.

Once you can feel what it means to be present, it becomes much easier to simply choose to step out of the time dimension whenever time is not needed for practical purposes and move more deeply into the Now.

Being present is always infinitely more powerful than anything one could say or do, although sometimes being present can give rise to words or actions.

DIE TO THE PAST EVERY MOMENT. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present.

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.

your dwelling place in the Now and pay

A very effective way of doing this is simply to take the focus of your attention away from thinking and direct it into the body, where Being can be felt in the first instance as the invisible energy field that gives life to what you perceive as the physical body.

To an onlooker, it may appear that you are under stress, but the intensity of enthusiasm has nothing to do with stress. When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

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.

Separe el tiempo de la mente y esta se detendrá

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

Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.