Ability Quote by Sivananda

To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

— Pete Rose

To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The more completely you concentrate, the stronger your mind becomes.

— Frederick Lenz

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

— Shunryu Suzuki

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

— Rajneesh

“People slip spontaneously into moments of concentration all the time—while reading a book, exercising, playing chess, or creating art. A yogi seeks to experience…

— Darren Main

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

— Ray Knight

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -…

— Anonymous

Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true…

— Ramana Maharshi

“The ability to concentrate intensely is a skill that must be trained. This idea might sound obvious once it’s pointed out, but it represents…

— Cal Newport