Action Quote by Sylvia Boorstein

“Effort, concentration, and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to…

— Sylvia Boorstein

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

“I am more able to recognize when my mind has gotten itself into trouble and increasingly eager to mobilize the energy to rescue it.…

— Sylvia Boorstein

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

— Ramana Maharshi

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

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

— Ray Knight

Mindfulness is a way to rebalance ourselves. Instead of being lost in thought, or caught up in emotional upheaval, we can tip the scale…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

In meditation you first get sense control. And yoga will help you with the body and when the mind is steady, concentration will come…

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a…

— Mark Coleman