Here's an interesting quote by William Walker Atkinson: "The trained occultist will concentrate upon a subject or object with a wonderful intensity, seemingly completely absorbed in the subject or object before him, and oblivious to all else in the world. And yet, the...
concentration
Attention is the new counterculture
Attention has always required some effort to direct but something has shifted in the last two decades that goes beyond ordinary distraction. The environment most people now live in is not accidentally fragmented; it is deliberately engineered to capture and hold...
You are not choosing as much as you think
Most people believe they are choosing where their attention goes. In practice, for the vast majority of the time, they are not. Instead, attention is being pulled, by habit, by anxiety, by whatever stimulus happens to be loudest in the environment, by the familiar...
Training the mind to obey the will
Here's an interesting quote by William Walker Atkinson: "The occult masters have ever impressed upon their pupils the importance and necessity of acquiring the power of Mental Concentration, and all trained and developed occultists have practiced and persevered toward...
The mind you shape shapes you back
Here's an interesting quote by William Walker Atkinson "There are two distinct aims in the attainment of the power of concentration: First, to mold the consciousness into a new and better state; second, to attain the highest possible knowledge of things spiritual....
A mind in pieces has no power
The philosopher Schopenhauer said: “If a large diamond is cut up into pieces, it immediately loses its value as a whole; or if an army is scattered or divided into small bodies, it loses all its power; and in the same way a great intellect has no more power than an...
The secret of your attention
Here's an interesting quote by Neville Goddard: "Your imagination is able to do all that you ask in proportion to the degree of your attention. All progress, all fulfillment of desire depend upon the control and concentration of your attention. Attention may be either...
Concentration as the master key to power
Christian Larson once wrote: "Concentration of the attention is one of the master keys of power. Without it one can accomplish nothing great or significant. The most perfect perceptions, the most retentive memory, the most daring and picturesque imagination -- without...
Your sacred attention
Most people don’t really understand how powerful attention is. And that’s not surprising since it’s rarely explained clearly. So let’s be direct: your attention shapes who you are. It’s not passive and it’s not just what you’re looking at. Think of attention like a...
Attention is a narrowing
There’s an important sentence by William Walker Atkinson that deserves a closer look: "Attention is not an enlargement or increase in consciousness, but rather a narrowing, condensing, or limiting of consciousness." Let’s unpack it. It’s easy to assume that paying...
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