All sacred components of our life are experienced by way of the wellspring of human attention. Negativity, feelings of despair, imbalance, lack of clarity, and stagnation of the spirit also are byproducts of choices made by the very same attention. . . . In fact, the root of the word attention comes from the Latin attendere, "to stretch to."
— Daniel Singer, Marcella Bakur Weiner, The Sacred Portable Now