Only the degree of concentration on the goal can shorten the way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-9#p14</ref>
==Remedy for Fatigue, Tension and Exhaustion==
...if through meditation or concentration we turn inward or upward, we can bring down into ourselves or raise up from the depths calm, quiet, peace and finally silence. It is a concrete, positive silence (not the negative silence of the absence of noise), immutable so long as it remains, a silence one can experience even in the outer tumult of a hurricane or battlefield. This silence is synonymous with peace and it is all-powerful; it is the perfectly effective remedy for the fatigue, tension and exhaustion arising from that internal over-activity and noise which generally escape our control and cease neither by day nor night. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/15-october-1959#p5 </ref>
==Concentration to Alleviate Pain ==