attention

Attention to obstacles makes them bigger and more stubborn; attention to shortages makes them bigger and prolongs them – and attention to a problem prevents any immediate resolution or solution... in the absence of longing, in the absence of doubt - in the absence of obstacles and shortages and problems - will be the solutions and abundance that you seek. 
If you could make a decision to never allow negative emotion to linger within you—and at the same time acknowledge that it is your work [...]
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. ~ Ben Okri
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.