if your goal is to have concentration as you…
Page 103 if your goal is to have concentration as you recite these daily passages, you won’t have concentration at all. Your goal can never be concentration. That’s conscious mind talk. The prayer asked to talk to you. If it’s exciting, the concentration will be there automatically.
— from The Air Traffic Controller (God)
In the book
Give the prayer a real theme, and let the theme be about you and your actual life. Do not make concentration itself the goal — that only guarantees you will not have it; let the words instead work the way a love-mantra is meant to, stirring genuine emotion rather than being recited as dry liturgy. Above everything, keep in mind Who it is you are speaking to. — The Air Traffic Controller (God)