One Apple A Day #723 - pay attention
"Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it."
Mary Oliver
I should probably stop here.
What else could I add to Mary Oliver's poem?
Yesterday I wrote that action precedes inspiration and that through deliberate creative practises, we can learn to be inspired.
However, something was missing.
Attention.
It all starts with paying attention.
So, this morning I wanted to write about it. About how inspiration ensues from the quality of our attention.
But it's all there.
In that poem by Mary Oliver.
It is just perfect.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
That is the power of attention at work. When we really pay attention, we silence all the noise, all the distractions, all the decorations so we can see the essence of it all.