You can pay attention to everyone you meet in every situation and there is no limit to that quality of generosity that you bring to your attention. And then he says, finally, at the end of this chapter, he says ‘This is what brings about a harmonising of your life, with the Spirit in your heart’. So the inner and the outer aspects of your existence become harmonised, and that is health. That is what health means, that is what wholeness means. Distraction is a strong force in all of us but the power of attention is greater because that power of attention that we are capable of, derives directly from God’s attention to us, God’s love for us.
( Attention and Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
