What if the one skill that determines whether you awaken to your divine nature or remain trapped in limitation is something most people have never consciously developed?
That skill is concentration.
And I’m not talking about the kind of concentration you needed in school. I’m talking about something far more powerful: the fundamental creative force of the universe itself.
The Restless Mind: An Ancient Problem
Over 5,000 years ago, the great warrior Arjuna spoke words that echo through every human heart:
“The mind is very restless, turbulent, strong and obstinate, O Krishna. It appears to me that it is more difficult to control than the wind.”
— Bhagavad Gita 6:34
Sound familiar?
The mind jumps from thought to thought, from past to future, from desire to fear. It’s like trying to hold water in your hands—the harder you grasp, the more it slips away.
This restlessness isn’t a modern problem caused by smartphones and social media. It’s the fundamental human condition. And mastering it is the key to everything.
The Hidden Meaning of CON-CENTRATION
Let’s start with the word itself. Concentration comes from Latin:
- Con- = together, with
- Centrum = center
Literal meaning: Bringing together toward a center point.
When you concentrate, you’re not just “paying attention.” You’re performing an act of creation. You’re gathering scattered universal energy and bringing it together to a focal point. You’re literally creating a center of force in consciousness.
And here’s the key: Where you concentrate energy, form appears.
Walter Russell’s Cosmic Secret
The brilliant scientist-mystic Walter Russell understood this profoundly. He wrote:
“All creating things are made by the compressive power of thinking.”
The universe operates through two fundamental movements:
- Concentration (centripetal) – Energy moving inward, compressing, densifying, creating form
- Decentration (centrifugal) – Energy expanding outward, dissolving, returning to potential
Stars form through concentration. Atoms exist through concentration. Your reality manifests through concentration.
Scattered attention = scattered energy = no creation.
Concentrated attention = concentrated energy = manifest form.
This isn’t philosophy. This is how creation works.
Humanity’s Evolutionary Goal
Alice Bailey taught that humanity’s current evolutionary goal is to become THINKERS.
Not people who have thoughts (everyone has thoughts flowing through them constantly).
But people who can think consciously, purposefully, with sustained concentration.
A true thinker is a creator. Someone who can hold focus steadily, direct energy purposefully, and create deliberately rather than chaotically.
This is why our modern world exists as it does—challenging, overwhelming, distracting—to force us to develop this capacity. To evolve from unconscious reactors into conscious creators.
And concentration is the foundation of this transformation.
The Modern Crisis: We’ve Lost This Power
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: We live in an age of decentration.
