Concentration Quotes

618 Concentration quotes by 463 unique authors

Focus on an object of some type, hopefully an object that's beautiful or powerful. You could find a pretty colored stone that you just feel… — Frederick Lenz
You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality. — Frederick Lenz
Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or… — Frederick Lenz
Place an object within your view, hopefully at about eye level. You might have to look down a little bit. Some people have a meditation… — Frederick Lenz
Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small.… — Frederick Lenz
Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your… — Frederick Lenz
Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of… — Frederick Lenz
If one were blind, one can simply focus on a feeling. — Frederick Lenz
Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind. — Frederick Lenz
Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity. — Frederick Lenz
If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini… — Frederick Lenz
When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place. — Frederick Lenz
The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into… — Frederick Lenz
Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow. — Frederick Lenz
In pranayama you don't worry about taking breaths, you focus on exhalation. If you exhale properly you will inhale. The more deeply you exhale the… — Frederick Lenz
It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better,… — Frederick Lenz
By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace… — Frederick Lenz
You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put… — Frederick Lenz
If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases… — Bill McKibben

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