Focus Quote by Sylvia Boorstein

Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a…

— Sylvia Boorstein

“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

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

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

“In meditation, states of deep focus and concentration are developed, leading to deeper levels of contemplation. With greater peacefulness and heightened awareness, the wisdom…

— Todd Perelmuter

“In the end, we can do many helpful things by structuring our environment, but the world is imperfect and hence there will always be…

— Shea Matthew Fisher

“In mindfulness practice, wise discernment is a tool that can help us in boundary setting. Mindfulness may open the doors of perception, but it…

— Sharon Salzberg

“The challenge of mindfulness is to work with the very circumstances that you find yourself in - no matter how unpleasant, how discouraging, how…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Mindful awareness is not presented as a passive concentration on a single, steady object, but as a refined engagement with a shifting, complex world.…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Meditation is a balancing act between attention and relaxation.”

— B. Alan Wallace

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

“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally,” writes Kabat-Zinn. “This kind of attention nurtures greater…

— Will Schwalbe