If you are truly attentive to someone, you are loving them. A key quote probably of our retreat on the Muscle of Attention is Jesus’ teaching, ‘Love one another, as I have loved you (Jn 13:34)’ – pay attention to one another as I pay attention to you. So the contemplative response to the crisis that we are passing through globally is a very important component, I think, of our coming through this crisis in a healthy way and being able to rebuild a better world with more healthy attitudes and more healthy ways of treating the environment, of understanding social justice and human rights and the care of the young, and the meaning of education, the meaning of health, the meaning of democracy.
| ( Attention and Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB ) |
