| I am afraid you are listening to me expecting to be put into an extraordinary state by some miracle. Or you try to be influenced by the speaker to come to that state, but you cannot. You have to work tremendously hard; it requires tremendous energy to listen. It requires all your attention to destroy inattention, to have no distraction of any kind – and there is no distraction ever to one who is attending. To one who is concentrating, there is distraction. From Public Talk 2, London, 7 June 1962 Read more | 