To do deep work, lift your attention toward the thing itself with a 'humble stirring of love' — a gentle, wanting attention, not a grasping one — and refuse to think of anything but it. Deliberately forget everything else and all its demands: 'leave them alone, and pay no heed to them.' Single-pointedness is the whole technique; there is nothing more to it than that.

— In our words · Source: The Cloud of Unknowing (Anonymous (14th-century English contemplative))