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=What Is Attention?=
It is to bring back all the scattered threads of consciousness to a single point, a single idea. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/23-december-1950#p7</ref>
This faculty of concentration belongs not only to the intellectual but to all activities and is obtained by the conscious control of the energies.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/concentration-and-dispersion#p1</ref>
==Inner Attention==
It [concentration of the inner consciousness] can happen in several forms. It can become concentrated in silence as the witness—it can become concentrated in the feeling of the Divine Force flowing through it, the work being a result—it can become concentrated in the feeling of the presence of the Divine or the Ananda or love of the Divine while the working goes on separately in front. All this becomes so habitual that it goes on of itself without the need of call or effort or even of the mind's attention—it simply is there. There are other possibilities besides those mentioned above, but these are perhaps the most common. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/becoming-conscious-in-work#p10</ref>
=Why Attention Is Necessary?=