How to Focus Quotes

“When we have been lost in forgetfulness for a long time, we lose touch with ourselves and feel alienated from ourselves.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Focus

“You can enjoy every moment of your daily life when you have mindfulness and concentration. When I walk mindfully from one place to another, I enjoy my in-breath, my out-breath, and my steps.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Focus

“Mindfulness always brings concentration, and concentration brings insight.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Focus

“Nothing has a separate existence, a separate self. Everything has to inter-be with everything else.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Focus

“We can cultivate our wish to be free of these things and nourish our deepest desire so we can enjoy the wonders of life that are always available—the blue sky, the trees, our beautiful children.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Focus

“FREEDOM FROM REGRET AND ANXIETY To breathe with full awareness is a miraculous way to untie the knots of regret and anxiety and to come back to life in the present moment. If we’re imprisoned by regrets about the past, anxiety for the future, or attachment and aversion in the present, we’re not free to be in contact with life. We’re not really living our life. When we breathe in and out and follow our breath with attention all the way through from the beginning to the end, we’re already at ease, no longer dominated by our anxieties and longings. As we breathe with full awareness, our breath becomes slower and more regular; peace and joy arise and become more stable with every moment. Relying on our breathing, we come back to ourselves and are able”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Focus

“RETURNING TO OURSELVES In everyday life we are often lost in forgetfulness. Our mind chases after thousands of things, and we rarely take the time to come back to ourselves. When we have been lost in forgetfulness for a long time, we lose touch with ourselves and feel alienated from ourselves. Conscious breathing is a marvelous way to return to ourselves. When we are aware of our breath, we come back to ourselves as quick as a flash of lightning. Like”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Focus

“Looking deeply can become a way of life. We can practice conscious breathing to help us be in touch with things and look deeply at their impermanent nature. This practice will keep us from complaining that everything is impermanent. Impermanence is what makes transformation possible. Thanks to impermanence, we can change suffering into joy.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Focus