"Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath."
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"Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency."
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"Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself."
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"Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest."
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"What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment."
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"If you don't concentrate on counting the money, people soon realize that money is not the focus of your consciousness, so they give you everything other than money: kudos, acclaim, praise, etc., etc. And sooner or later you'll be in trouble."
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"When you feel confused or burdened by problems focus on THIS INSTANT and ask yourself: WHAT PROBLEM DO I HAVE RIGHT NOW? You will find that there is no problem NOW. A challenge that requires action, possibly, but not a problem."
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"If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed."
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"Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus."
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"School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn."
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"We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout."
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"Do whatever you do intensely."
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"What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it."
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"As a mortal being you are limited, but as a child of God you are unlimited... Focus your attention on God, and you shall have all the power you want, to use in any direction."
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"The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for."
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"Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy."
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"Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus."
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"The way of the mind is to study many things; the way of the Beingness is to focus on one thing."
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"Words are a lens to focus one's mind."
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"If you could have magical binoculars that you could focus and look at the field of intention, you would see what the source of all things looks like. It's a source of love and kindness and beauty and creativity, and it's a source that excludes nothing and it's a source of unlimited abundance."
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