- Robert Reich comments on the ways attention in the business world has become just another commodity to the rich who feel entitled to special service.
- Master Hsing Yun gives three ways to govern the mind which falls under the practice of attention.
- Rushworth Kidder lauds a new morality of mindfulness which enables us to think clearly about thorny ethical issues facing us and the country.
- Laurence Freeman sheds light on meditation which falls under the spiritual practice of attention.
- Susan Murphy focuses on being attentive and finding beauty and life in all things including concrete canyons, parking lots, and freeways.
- Eknath Easwaran shares his thoughts about his grandmother and her ability to wed action and contemplation in an attentiveness to everything, large or small.
- Gayland Ferguson recommends a daily mindfulness or attention to our inner and outer states of being.
- Joan Chittister explores the different dimensions of prayer including the spiritual practice of attention.
- Margaret McGee sees haikus as catalysts for attention, connections, and praise to God for the creation.
- Thich Nhat Hanh shares his experience of the mindful (attentive) eating of an apple.
- Andi Young explains the sacred art of bowing in Zen Buddhism and the important role of attention or awareness in the practice.
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