“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”

“Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.”

“....maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun.”

“If we have forgotten our total dependency upon God, then there is nothing left for us but to try to depend upon other people’s attention to us, because without such attention we don’t even feel like human beings. Instead of paying attention to God, we become beggars for the attention of others, constantly trying to make them pity us or look up to us. But this is not true human relatedness, only mutual idolatry.”

“one way to understand people is to pay attention to what they love.”

“She said things and I nodded. I didn't pay attention. She didn't pay attention to me. We floated through our days in that way.”