Concentration

The secret of all true knowledge and of all great achievement is concentration, and failure can generally be traced to a want of that power. Application and perseverance are simply wasted, lost, dissipated without concentration. The principle is this: given an object or point, make for it, stick to it,…

Having considered in a previous paper the law of vibratory forces as operative between soul and soul, a study of its exercise in one's individual economy logically follows. But, while individuated, it is clearly impossible for spiritual development to be selfish, because no limitation can enclose it. Egotism is existent…

Concentration, or the bringing of the mind to a center and keeping it there, is vitally necessary to the accomplishment of any task. It is the father of thoroughness and the mother of excellence. As a faculty, it is not an end in itself, but is an aid to all…

The New Thought includes concentration of thought, in its teaching; and he who learns that important art is not liable to frequently forget small or large duties. It is he who scatters, instead of concentrates his mind powers, who keeps himself and others in a state of continual irritation by forgetting, mislaying, and losing,…

I fling my past behind me, like a robe Worn threadbare in the seams, and out of date. I have outgrown it. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox The most troublesome thing to overcome in coming into these teachings is to forget our past. There are people of two classes. One class is…

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