Hey Family!
Here are some of the quotes I shared this morning, and a couple of related videos to check out!
These quotes below (apart from the Hafiz poem) are from Austin Kleon’s great little book, Keep Going [affiliate link*].
“We give things meaning by paying attention to them, and so moving your attention from one thing to another can absolutely change your future.”—Jessa Crispin
“Attention is the most basic form of love”— John Tarrant.
“My experience is what I agree to attend to,” psychologist William James wrote in 1890. “Only those items which I notice shape my mind.”
I also highly recommend the book Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson, especially the chapter on Paying Attention.
Hafiz Poem quoted by David Benner, Opening to God: Lectio Divina and Life as Prayer
In the morning
When I begin to wake,
It happened again—
That feeling
That You, Beloved,
Had stood watch over me all night
Keeping watch,
That feeling
As soon as I began to stir
You put your lips on my forehead
And lit a holy lamp
Inside my heart
For more on paying attention to what you pay attention to as a way to lower stress, check out this article by Tim Sanders.
Finally, my friend Brent Manke wrote a great little book called Pay Attention. You can download it for free here.
*Full disclosure—Amazon closed Coastlands’ affiliate account due to lack of activity, so a tiny percentage of your purchase of any of those books would go to support me and Sarah (without affecting your cost). If you’d rather purchase them elsewhere, you can absolutely do that and no hard feelings!