attention on Inheritance

Peter Ustinov, the British actor, director, and playwright, once received an indignant letter from the headmaster of his son’s school. The letter complained that his son frequently disrupted lessons b...

Here’s a story about tithing - giving away 10% of one’s income, from of all places, Forbes magazine. In the article, the writer tells the story of Greg Gianforte, the founder, chairman and CEO of Rig...

Too often we give real estate to things in our lives that either haven’t earned their land or were never meant to occupy important space in the first place.

Invitations are powerful. Like tides, they ebb and flow, shaping the contours of our existence. Some invitations we desperately want but never get—“Will you marry me?” or “Would you consider a promoti...

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will percei...

For all our time and attention, no matter how carefully we curate our stuff or how much we might enjoy ourselves along the way, we’re all merely stocking and staging someone else’s opportunity for bar...

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Sustained attention is the easier, the richer in acquisitions and the fresher and more original the mind. In such minds, subjects bud and sprout and grow. At every moment, they please by a new consequ...

You decide to buy a certain kind of car, and suddenly you see it everywhere. A friend recommends an obscure movie to you, and by the end of the week, three more people have mentioned it. You find out ...

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

Be not only attentive in hearing, but retentive after hearing.

Being heard is so close to being loved, that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

Practicing attention, people can now receive their world as a place of belonging.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.

Presence is experienced as a unitary whole. Think, for example, about the experience of sitting on the top of a hill, far from the polluting lights of a city, gazing at a dark, starry sky. Unless you ...

I love that line. “Surely the LORD is in this place,” Jacob muses, “and I was not aware of it.” Isn’t that, more or less, the story with most of us, most of the time?

There is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that.

Beginning with radio, each new medium would attain its commercial viability through the resale of what attention it could capture in exchange for its “free” content.

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determinin...

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.