Quotes about Focus

You often find what you're looking for.

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

By repeatedly bringing your attention back to the breath each time it wanders off, concentration builds and deepens, much as muscles develop by repetitively lifting weights.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.

and remind you that you are here now, and that when you get there, you will be there. If you miss the here, you are likely also to miss the there. If your mind is not centered here, it is likely not to be centered just because you arrive somewhere else.

As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.

TRY: Asking yourself in this moment, "Am I awake?," "Where is my mind right now?

Mindfulness has been called the heart of Buddhist meditation.

This is the case because, as we noted earlier, it is not the breath that is most important here, but the awareness itself. And the awareness can be of any aspect of your experience, not just your breathing—because it is always the same awareness, whatever the chosen object or objects of attention.

Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.