Attention

From ~~~~ Conscious Immortality, Ch.4

M.:

When attention is directed 

towards objects and intellect, 

mind is aware only of these things. 

That is our present state. 

But when we attend to the Self within 

we become conscious of It alone. 

It is therefore all a matter of attention. 

Our mind has for so long 

been attending to external things 

that the latter have enslaved it 

and drag it hither and thither.

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