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Desire, Effort and Concentration

Ultimately, it all comes down to how badly you desire to live a concentrated life. Most people don’t desire it badly enough and hence never reach a state of concentration where they can manifest the life that they want. They can concentrate for brief periods of time but the levels of concentration needed to create changes in life is never attained because the desire is not there.

If you really want to develop unwavering focus you must first have an intense desire for it and then stop at nothing until you are able to hold awareness in single-pointed focus.

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Mar 5, 2019 Conversations on the Spiritual Path

Concentration leads to Peace

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Developing Willpower

Look at your life and look for opportunities to develop your willpower. Make this one of your life’s goals with a clear reason why you are developing willpower. To simply develop willpower is not enough. We need to understand why we are doing so and ultimately what will we use th
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Oct 8, 2018 Insights on Life

Investing Energy

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Sep 4, 2018 Awareness & the Mind

Where awareness goes, energy flows

When I lived as a monk, my guru (Sivaya Subramuniyaswami) taught me a phrase he coined: ‘Where awareness goes, energy flows.’ It's probably one of the most important things I’ve learned. First, we have to learn that awareness and the mind are two separate things. Second, our mind
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Aug 14, 2018 Meditation

Preparation for Meditation

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