Concentration and Will

Essentially, from the general point of view, particularly from the intellectual viewpoint, the most important thing is the ca- pacity of attention and concentration, it is that which one must work at and develop. From the point of view of action (physical action), it is the will: you must work and build up an unshakable will. From the intellectual point of view, you must work and build up a power of concentration which nothing can shake. And if you have both, concentration and will, you will be a genius and nothing will resist you.

Nature of our work

Our work should be according to the truth within us, it should not be an accommodation with outward and artificial standards: it must be a living and sincere expression of the soul and its inborn powers.

Volume: 19 [CWSA] (Essays on the Gita), Page: 525

-- Sri Aurobindo