Power of Attention

In Eckhart Tolle's book, Power of Now, Eckhart points out the importance of attention and calls it the attention of consciousness itself, that is your attention.


The importance of attention is well understood in accomplishing the works of the world, however, it is not as well understood as a spiritual door opener.

Since thoughts have a momentum of their own and tend to carry away our attention with them, like wild untamed horses carrying away the carriage and the rider, that is us - the question then remains, where should this attention be so that it remains in our control and opens the door to the realm of the sacred?

Many answers have been provided to us from spiritual masters across the world.

Meditation asks us to focus on our breath - the inward and outward movement of the diaphragm. This has the benefit of brining attention to our body.

Tolle takes a step further and asks us to bring internal attention to every part of our body, flooding it with attention (i.e. consciousness). He further asks us to always have a part of our attention in this inner body, as it is a portal to the beyond, which is our home.

Zen masters will frequently point to anything that requires you to be very still to hear or see - like a distant sound, or a low intensity vibration.

Paying attention to space between things, to silence, to stillness - produces its counterpart within us, and increases our awareness.

Stillness within is your home.