This document discusses the work of attention as an act of love. It defines love as requiring effort and courage directed towards spiritual growth. The principal form that the work of love takes is attention, which requires making an effort to shift one's consciousness away from preoccupations. Attention is an act of will and work against the inertia of our own minds. It encourages listening well, reading carefully and focusing, in order to train one's attention. True listening requires work and is therefore an act of love. It suggests that giving value to others helps them feel valuable in return, and that love and value beget more love and value.

1. THE WORK OF ATTENTION
II: Love

2. THE WORK OF ATTENTION

3. The definition of love implied EFFORTEFFORT.
Work = Extension of ourselves/moving out against
inertia of laziness.
Courage = Moving out in the face of fear.
LOVE = work / courage directed toward the
nurture of our own or another's spiritual growth.

4. • If an act is not one of work/courage, then
it’s not an act of love.
• If work/courage directed to other than
spiritual growth, it’s not an act of love too.
• The principal form that the work of love
takes is ATTENTION.

5. THE WORK OF ATTENTION
• Attention requires that we make the
effort to set aside our existing
preoccupations and actively shift our
consciousness.
• Attention is an act of will, of work
against the inertia of our own minds.

6. How to Train Your ATTENTION?
LISTEN WELL !

7. Read Carefully + Focus

8. Learn to Listen More

9. Listen Well to Love!

10. BALANCE

11. • Concentration
• Effort

12. WHY?
• Give esteem  feel valuable
• Realize that he/she is an extraordinary
individual
Listen  Learn  Teach
Be listened  Feel valuable  Listen

13. WHY?
Value creates value
Love begets love

14. True listening  work  an act of love

15. THE RISK OF LOSS
II: Love

16. She enjoy the loneliness

17. Lonely = afraid of everything

18. Courage is not the absence of fear,
the fear is inescapable if they are
in fact to change!

19. The essence of life is…
• change
• a panoply of growth
• decay

20. Death = Friend