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=Why Attention Is Necessary?=
The aim in the training is to develop this power of concentrating the attention at will on whatever subject or activity one chooses from the most spiritual to the most material, without losing anything of the fullness of the power,—for instance, in the physical field, transferring the use of the power from one game to another or one activity to another so as to succeed equally in all. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/concentration-and-dispersion#p6</ref>
==To Save Time==
When you work, if you are able to concentrate, you can do absolutely in ten minutes what would otherwise take you one hour. If you want to gain time, learn to concentrate. It is through attention that one can do things quickly and one does them much better. If you have a task that should take you half an hour—I don't say if you have to write for half an hour of course—but if you have to think and your mind is floating about, if you are thinking not only of what you are doing but also of what you have done and of what you will have to do and of your other subjects, all that makes you lose thrice as much time as you need to do your task. When you have too much to do, you must learn how to concentrate exclusively on what you are doing, with an intensity in your attention, and you can do in ten minutes what would otherwise take you one hour. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/24-june-1953#p47</ref>
==To Achieve Success==
It is said that the faculty of concentrated attention is at the source of all successful activity. Indeed the capacity and value of a man can be measured by his capacity of concentrated attention. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/concentration#p12</ref>
Those who can attain perfect attention succeed in everything they undertake; they will always make a rapid progress. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/23-december-1950#p7</ref>
==To Progress Spiritually==
If one is very attentive, one becomes conscious. One must be very concentrated and very attentive, then one becomes conscious. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/9-december-1953#p28</ref>
Particularly, if you have continued to cultivate the power of concentration and attention, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter the active external consciousness and they then become all the more dynamic and effective. And if, in the intensity of concentration, it becomes necessary not to think at all, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to record the inspirations that come from there. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mental-education#p19</ref>
=How to Cultivate Attention?=