Week 23: The power of Attention and Concentration

Posted By Tilahun Bekele

Success with out genuine service to others is doomed to fail. All power comes from attention and concentration. Life by law is growth in progress. Most people are afraid to let go what is familiar and get stuck in mediocrity because they are afraid to step out from the known. Master key master mind concept helped me to open up to experiences that are new and unfamiliar to self and encourage me to become autonomous, fearless, fulfilled and ultimately happy.

As Haanel put it 4. “The forces of life are volatile; they are composed of our thoughts and ideals and these in turn are molded into form; our problem is to keep an open mind, to constantly reach out for the new, to recognize opportunity, to be interested in the race rather than the goal, for the pleasure is in the pursuit rather than the possession.”

So I see life in all its beauty as learning and evolving, and thus, of developing a wider and higher consciousness in order to serve others. Attention and concentration are prerequisite to the power of creative thought and its power is mighty.

Haanel continues 10. “The power of attention is called concentration; this power is directed by the will; for this reason we must refuse to concentrate or think of anything except the things we desire. Many are constantly concentrating upon sorrow, loss and discord of every kind; as thought is creative it necessarily follows that this concentration inevitably leads to more loss, more sorrow and more discord. How could it be otherwise? On the other hand, when we meet with success, gain, or any other desirable condition, we naturally concentrate upon the effects of these things and thereby create more, and so it follows that much leads to more.”

I am a spiritual being with human experience and I feel the experience of being alive. The most important thing to me is to give and to keep on keeping on giving and growing.

Haanel assures us 21. “Spirituality” is quite “practical,” very “practical,” intensely “practical.” It teaches that Spirit is the Real Thing, the Whole Thing, and that Matter is but plastic stuff, which Spirit is able to create, mould, manipulate, and fashion to its will. Spirituality is the most “practical” thing in the world — the only really and absolutely “practical” thing that there is!”

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