As Mary Oliver reminds us, paying attention is how one stands rightly in this world.

Attention is the most basic form of love. To pay attention to your breath, to the bird outside, to the ache in your heart -this is how you honor the sacredness of life.

Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape

Attention is a narrowing and an expansion. You focus on one leaf, and in that act, the whole forest becomes more alive.

To see a single thing clearly is to see its connection to everything else.

Jane Hirshfield, Poetry and the Mind of Concentration