One-Pointedness
For even so a man that taketh a journey if he holdeth to one sure road, shall quickly make an end of his journey and of his toil. But if he essay many roads, he wandereth and maketh never an end of his toil, because of such wandering there is no end. William of St. Thierry
When a man lacks discrimination, his will wanders in all directions, after innumerable aims. Those who lack discrimination may quote the letter of the scriptures, but they are really denying its inner truth Those whose discrimination is stolen away by such talk grow deeply attached to pleasures and power. And so they are unable to develop that one-pointed concentration of the will, which leads a man to absorption in God. Bhagavad Gita |
