Attention is everything -- If you never noticed, it never happened.

Attention is decisive. What holds attention determines action.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Attention is vitality — It connects one with others and makes one eager.

Awareness is a better form of possession. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything - the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.

Awareness is the ending of the self, of the “I” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification.

Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification.

Boredom is only for the boring.

Boredom is the antonym of solitude.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Boredom is the failure of imagination.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs.

Concentration is the secret of strength in all the management of human affairs.

Concentration is difficult -- sometimes our only hope is to be distracted from distraction by distraction.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.