Concentrated Mind Quotes

#1. The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

C.S. Lewis

#3. The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

George Orwell

#5. Concentration is not to try hard to watch something ... Concentration means freedom ... In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing is to forget all about yourself and just to sit and feel your breathing.

Shunryu Suzuki

#6. As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.

Jostein Gaarder

#7. In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.

Cassandra Clare

#8. During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Fritjof Capra

#9. He picked up his knife and started carving again. He concentrated on the lines and planes of the wood to keep his mind from wandering too far into the past.
He had his own wounds that refused to heal.

Lorraine Heath

#10. I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough top pay for it Or reap the beauty later.

Ravindra Shukla

#11. Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life.

Eknath Easwaran

#12. Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant and steady, this positive joy arises.

Amit Ray

#13. Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#14. Is this seat taken?" a warm sexy drawl asked and I lifted my gaze and smiled up at Dank.
"Yes. I'm saving it for my smoking hot boyfriend," I replied teasingly.
Dank slid in beside me and put his arm around my shoulder. "Hmmm, well he should have gotten here sooner. You snooze, you lose.

Abbi Glines

#15. Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads.

Marty Rubin

#16. I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

Dorothy Stratten

#17. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

Swami Vivekananda

#18. His powers of memory were awe-inspiring, but only about matters on which he had fearsomely concentrated his mind.

Norman Macrae

#19. There are no places in this world where the chit can be concentrated. Without the chit attaining steady-state; the chit can't be blissful. There are places where the mind can attain a steady state but there are no places where chit's steady-state can be attained.

Dada Bhagwan

#20. Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.
[Trans. Purohit Swami]

Anonymous

#21. In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.

Ezra Taft Benson

#22. The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called.
"Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong."
"I'm offended," Dave told her flatly.

Sarah Dessen

#24. The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

Matthieu Ricard

#25. Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.

Steve Martin

#26. I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

Julianna Baggott

#27. The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

Swami Vivekananda

#28. Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

Richard Baxter

#29. We are only able to get into the possession of Wisdom and get closer to Truth when and if we realize that all the knowledge and experience concentrated in the mind only hamper us in our awakening to Truth.

Frank M. Wanderer

#30. When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.

Shunryu Suzuki