The Power of Attention

“What we think of, we become,” Buddha said. So out of many things that enter into our mind, we need to choose what we would like to think of and ignore others.

The ability to dismiss unimportant things or distractions and selectively concentrate on one thing is simply defined as attention. It is an active awareness of the world around and in us. With greater attention, we are more likely to better engage the world, either focusing inward narrowly on a small object or outward, broadly spreading...