Quotes About Focus

How are we to know that the mind has become concentrated? Because the idea of time will vanish. The more time passes un-noticed the more concentrated we are . . . All time will have the tendency to come and stand in the one present. So the definition is given, when the past and present come and stand in one, the mind is said to be concentrated."—Vivekananda

The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought. —Chogyam Trungpa

Don't think about the past. Just be here now.

Don't think about the future. Just be here now.

Set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. (Colossians 3:1) This is a direct command to set our hearts on Heaven. And to make sure we don't miss the importance of a heaven-centered life, the next verse says, Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. God commands us to set our hearts and minds on Heaven.

Lord Foulgrin: You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole. (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)

When I believe ultimate happiness is found only in God, then I will shut out distractions and open His Word.

Our minds are so much set on Earth that we are unaccustomed to heavenly thinking. So we must work at it.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:18, NIV).

How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

Life on earth is a dot, a brief window of opportunity; life in Heaven (and ultimately on the New Earth) is a line going out from that dot for eternity. If we're smart, we'll live not for the dot, but for the line.

Countless people in worse situations are happier than those in better situations. This demonstrates that happiness is dependent not on circumstances but on perspective, which is determined by our focus.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (NIV)

Perhaps you're afraid of becoming "so heavenly minded you're of no earthly good." Relax—you have nothing to worry about! On the contrary, many of us are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly or earthly good.

Your emotions are governed not by the circumstances of your life, but by the circumstances to which you pay attention

Unsuspecting people make a fatal mistake when they give their allegiance to a system of thought by focusing on its benefits while they ignore its systemic contradictions.

the power of a lens is incredible.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..

Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

You don't stay for nothing.

I love to write. It's all I do.