Concentration

Concentration is the power by which you can free your attention from objects of distraction and place it upon one thing at a time.

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Concentration is the gateway to power. The root cause of failure is lack of concentration.

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Those who concentrate on the fruits of their actions are led continuously from one desire to another until they become completely entangled in earthly desires.

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Thousands of people make wrong investments every day because their minds are distorted by greed, which clouds their powers of concentration.

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If you can keep your mind focused deeply enough and long enough at the point between the eyebrows, you will get the right answer to any problem.

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To acquire mental magnetism, you must do everything with deep concentration. People who have reached the top of their profession or business have great magnetic power.

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Habits can be changed in a day. They are nothing but concentration of the mind. Simply concentrate another way, and you’ll completely overcome the habit.

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When you can concentrate upon any object and see it with either open or closed eyes, you will have developed your ability to concentrate.

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Just as all human beings have eyes, so does everyone have a spiritual eye within the forehead. It awaits only your discovery by deep concentration within.

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The more deeply you concentrate your attention at the point between the eyebrows, the more you will find your ego dissolving into superconsciousness.

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Concentration and meditation destroy mental diseases and corrosive bad habits that are lodged in the brain.

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If your concentration becomes supremely strong and you are one with God, you are able to see all the great saints materialized in flesh, and you can touch them with your hands. This is the ultimate state of concentration.

From lessons, articles, and books by Paramhansa Yogananda

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    These are wonderful quotes! Thank you for collecting quotes on a single topic and bringing them togther in one place. I find these personally inspiring. I am now sharing them with others on Twitter.

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