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I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.
Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.
Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.
An individualist - a man who has no intention of ever exploring the goals of others because he has no intention of compromising with his own - may become: (a) a hermit of limited goals, (b) a tyrant surrounded by slaves with rebellion in his future and covert hostility in his present.
I want to be alone with my thought.
double mindedness; the mid way between dreams and realities
Obsession with self is the motif of our time.
Concentrate ... for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.
If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.
The biggest secret of focused people is that they don't think about focus.
To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.
I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.
as self-centered as a tornado,
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind ...
Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.
A mind is only as sharp as the knife, that strives to cut through thoughts
too tough for the blade, before it breaks or goes dull.
Maintain a persistent focus of what you want
One-track mind easily predicted.
Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.
Feeling alone guides the mind.
Single-minded dedication to just one thing, without rest, respite or distraction, is only conducive to migraines, not productivity.
The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.
An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
To have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.
Mind over matter.
All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.
What we so admire and call "single minded dedication" was really "obsessive self-involvement". What in that exactly is admirable?
Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.
One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.
What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.
THE mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.
The soul that has no established aim loses itself
Not shackled to a one-track mind, he always applied two, three, or four
Singles have goals, responsibilities, deadlines, events, and friends that occupy their time, as well they should. Nonetheless, before any goals are achieved, responsibilities are fulfilled, deadlines are met, events are attended or friends are visited, God's purpose should be accomplished.
A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you be able to ask the key question of your life: What is is that I am destined to accomplish, and how can I make it happen?
Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.
At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart
If one only strives for caring solely about themselves in the end they will get what the wanted just themselves.
People think too much when they're alone.
Some minds are like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set.
A distracted existence leads us to no goal
This is the true selfishness: self-centeredness.
The star-flooded nights, the dew-soaked dawns, the hushed ambulatories, the enforced asceticism - never has Werner felt part of something so single-minded.
You've got a one-track mind, beautiful." I
We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
Observe what is with undivided awareness.
One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
I guess there are people who are like, 'Here's one thing, and I'm gonna do it,' but I can't. I don't have the capacity to have that singular focus. I need to try to get a lot of things going 'cause you never know what's gonna hit.
True individuality can be lonely.
Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.
The selfish mind is the distracted mind and the distracted mind is the easily oppressed mind.
Within obsession lies madness and genius
There is no aloneness. There is only unawareness.
So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.
Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest ... into which he has settled ... Wisdom immediately appears ... and the all-discerning Fivefold Eye opens wide.
When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.
But such niggling distractions on the periphery matter little once you've set your sights so squarely on what you want most. By
A focused Mind is a result Of a little Effort To tell Your Distractions To sleep for A couple of hours While you are at WORK.
Alone knows what times we are living in when undisguised selfishness stifles all feelings of conscience, duty, or even ordinary decency.
No one would ever know it to look at me that as soon as I'm alone I am busy busy busy in the head.
Be mindful of your thoughts with compassion
While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
With a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students
A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.
It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.
It is therefore vital for you to understand that being single-" separate, unique, and whole"- is most essential to, and the foundation of, not only marital relationships but all relationships.
Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners
I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.
When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Thoughts are steered in different ways.
Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
When one has but a single idea he finds in it everything.
All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.
There is beauty in thinking independently.
Self-awareness is the rarest power of all, precious and vulnerable to the highest degree, the supreme and generally fleeting achievement of a person.
If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.
One thing that is clearer to me every day is how much we all have in common, and one of those commonalities is that we all think we are alone.
Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
I am self-centred. I just adore myself.
Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not other, it is your own mind.
Individuality is but another act of segregation. We need instead learn the process of Individuation. One is to know thyself merely to be a single brick within the wall of mass creation and group consciousness.
The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.
Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.
Those only are happy ... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness,
a crisis in my mental history
Spontaneity is the fragrance of no-mind.
There is but one mind and one thinker every other being thinks from him.