We have to understand how we have become such a distracted civilisation. On the one hand, we have this inability to pay attention, to make healthy relationships that demand attention to the other and to take the attention off ourselves in order to make relationships. How can you make a relationship if you are only thinking about yourself all the time? So we have to learn to take the attention off ourselves, which is why meditation bears fruit in all our relationships and the first fruit of the Spirit.
( Attention and Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
