Qualities die for want of attention, so the unlovely states might best be rubbed out by imagining “beauty for ashes and joy for mourning” rather than by direct attacks on the state from which we would be free.

I feed this state I now like with my attention. I keep it alive within my world by becoming attentive to it.

You can either be attentive to the limitations and feed these and make them mountains, or you can be attentive to your desires

Now I am a mother who must keep alive this state by being attentive to it.

If you and I would spend a few minutes every day in withdrawing our attention from the region of sensation and concentrating it on an invisible state

Give all your attention to the assumption that the thing is so

your attention is like the very stream of life or milk itself that nurses and makes alive that which holds your attention. In other words, what holds your attention has your life.

focus our attention on an invisible state, mentally feeling it and sensing it until it has all the distinctness of reality

For if you look back and give attention to it, you are steeping once more that kid in its mother’s milk.

An old idea is not fickly forgotten, it is crowded out by new ideas. It disappears when a wholly new and absorbing idea occupies our attention.

So don’t rage against it; leave it just as it is.

to transcend the violence by not fighting against conditions

If I now become detached in consciousness from this room by turning my attention away from it, then, I am no longer conscious of it.

You do not send your visible world hunting, as so many people do, by denial. By saying it does not exist you make it all the more real.

It is not men falling, not a man betraying another, but you detaching your attention, and refocusing your attention in an entirely new direction.

let go of that which you are and all that it represents in the world. Become completely detached from it.

You can become at will detached from the world round about you, and attached to that which you want to embody within your world.

The best denial is total indifference. Things wither and die through indifference. They are kept alive through attention.

If I cease to assume it and sustain it, it slowly vanishes from my world

if he could only drop it by non-acceptance, by complete indifference, to the pigment of skin he could accomplish his every dream

if, not by denying, but by complete indifference, complete non-acceptance, you turn to what you wish you could have heard instead of what you heard, you are investing

I didn’t answer, as if I hadn’t even heard the word.

the objective world vanishes as we turn our attention from it