Concentration Quotes - Page 35

• Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.

  Frederick Lenz

  Might Use, Rocks, Flames

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• Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras are designs of power that tap into other levels of attention. They remind us of things in other worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Other Worlds, Design, Attention

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• 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 good about.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Powerful, Focus

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• You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Flames, Use

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• Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Rocks, Flames, Focus

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• 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. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Flames, Focus

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• 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 mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Focus, Mind

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• 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 thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Sight, Perception

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• If one were blind, one can simply focus on a feeling.

  Frederick Lenz

  Focus, Feelings, Blind

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• 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

  Mean, Listening, Mind

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• Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flames, Looks, Intensity

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• 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 energy begins to radiate and rise, it causes the mind to be quiet.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Energy, Causes

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• When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place.

  Frederick Lenz

  Focus, Metaphysical, Process

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• We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.

  Naomi Wolf

  Girl, Unique, Boys

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• I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

  Frank Auerbach

  Degrees, Nervous, Process

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• Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.

  Philip Roth

  Silence, Mind, Literature

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• Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Success, Mind, Gimlets

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• If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

  Lee Trevino

  Fishing, Focus, Hook

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• Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Media, Class

  Noam Chomsky (1989). “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies”, p.8, Pluto Press

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• I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Brooklyn, Rich, Fart

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• The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Focus

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• Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.

  Norman Doidge

  Reading, Health, Games

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• My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

  Gene Simmons

  Mother, Good Day, Nazi Concentration Camps

  "Gene Simmons: What I've Learned" by Chris Buck, www.esquire.com. July 2002.

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• Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Power, Technology, Political

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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