Someone paired the above quote with a poem by Mary Oliver and the combination really hit home for me.
The Wisest Thing I Know
Ten times a day something happens to me like this –
some strengthening throb of amazement – some good sweet empathic ping and swell.
This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know:
that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.
-Mary Oliver
Many years ago at Science of Mind I learned another way of stating this powerful truth: Where attention goes, energy flows.
It makes sense to me that this is how we become (and how our soul-being is built) according to what we pay attention to.