Attention is a work of love

When you are working on plans, when you are working on ideas, when you are making designs, it is not just doing the job superficially, it’s caring with attention. And when we go to a medical treatment or we speak about our personal issues with others, what we need is not someone to solve the problems for us (most problems can’t be solved anyway) but what we really need is this quality of caring attention. And if we receive that, and you can’t fake it, if you feel that you are receiving that from another person, that is immensely healing, empowering, and energising, and liberating. We just need to feel this genuine caring attention. You could also call that love, but love is a loaded word, but it is actually a work of love as well