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Concentration is necessary to gather the whole will and mind from the natural distractions. Left to themselves, they follow the normal dispersive movement of thoughts running after many-branching desires led away by outward sensory contacts. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p7</ref>

The mind is a thing that dwells in diffusion, in succession; it can only concentrate on one thing at a time and when not concentrated runs from one thing to another very much at random. Therefore it has to concentrate on a single idea, a single subject of meditation, a single object of contemplation, a single object of will in order to possess or master it, and this it must do to at least the temporary exclusion of all others. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/concentration#p7</ref>

~~=== Three Powers of Concentration ===~~

~~1. By concentration on anything whatsoever, we are able to know that thing.~~

~~2. By concentration, the whole will can be gathered up for the acquisition of any object whatsoever.~~

~~3. By concentration of our whole being on one status of itself, we can become whatever we choose. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/concentration#p2 </ref>~~

== How to Concentrate ==

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