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these experiments. It is necessary the same faculty within us.
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The first necessity is the ability to concentrate. What does that mean to us ? It means that the mind stuff should acquire stability. The stable element of the mind must become predominant. Whether you formulate it in philosophical, poetical, or scientific language, yon must say the mind must be made stable, that it must be able to concentrate. Not all people can concentrate. If that were so we would know well this; as a matter of fact they do not know. That is evidence that all have not as yet developed the same faculty or ability to concent rate
A great writer has said that there are two conditions necessary for concentration. One is called isolation, and the other distribution. Isolation is to be able to separate your consciousness from external things. Distribution is power to apply those powers so acquired to the good of the whole world. A person with the power of isolation, and the faculty of distribution, only can concentrate. Persons wbo are controlled by greed, jealousy, and such evil tendencies cannot concentrate. In order that a person may not be influenced by the vibrations of the external world, by the confused thoughts of people, the depraved conditions of things in the world, it is necessary that they acquire independence
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