Giving Your Attention First

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

To pay attention is to say: you matter more than my hurry. This morning, notice what happens when you listen to one person without planning your reply. Notice how your shoulders drop. When you hold a cup of tea and actually taste it instead of drinking while thinking about email, you have given that cup your whole self. That is generosity. It costs nothing and everything. The world does not ask much of us, really. It asks only that we show up.