So you may say, ‘You know, I have a very busy mind. And I am doing a lot of things, I am multitasking all the day.’ But a hyperactive, hyper active mind, too much multitasking, constant distraction, jumping from one thing to another without resting in this work of attention; or rapid bursts of stimulation, which is what we like today – that might seem as if the faculty of attention is being exercised a lot, but it is not. Actually, the muscle of attention is atrophying, is wasting away. It is wasting away and it needs exercise. It needs therapy.The therapy of the soul is prayer.
( Attention and Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
