Heroes Not Zombies

Maybe this is something we don’t talk about enough, but what’s missing, so often, in this world, is love. Whether we see that aspect of love we call kindness, or the aspect we call compassion, or care, or whether it’s the aspect of desire, and passion, our world is enriched when we pay loving attention.

It’s a bit of a cliché to say that what the world needs is more love, but, it’s true, all the same. But even without such grand dreams as world peace, and a society based on kindness, rather than on ego and greed, we can still make our everyday lives better by loving more.

We pay attention to all kinds of things. Our attention is “caught”, is “attracted”, in order to sell us stuff….goods and ideas. The dominant way of catching attention, magnified by all the algorithms, is to stoke anger, shock, horror and outrage. But I can’t see that any of that is making the world a better place, and I certainly don’t have the experience that a day filled with anger and fear, is a good day.

When we pay loving attention, whatever we are “attending to”, is enhanced, and, here’s the great thing, by paying loving attention, we, too, are enhanced.

It’s a good day when we have filled it with love. It’s a good day when we have paid loving attention to the here and now. It’s a good day when we have felt love for others, humans, animals, and plants. It’s a good day when our hearts have filled, again and again, with love.

Try it for yourself, and see what you experience. Pay more loving attention.