Author, psychologist and meditation teacher Tara Brach said:

"Attention is the greatest form of love."

Ponder this with me: In our attention economy where bots and algorithms and marketers and everyone and their brother is trying to capture our attention, what does it mean that attention is the greatest form of love?

Who do you give your attention to these days?

Is your choice conscious or unconscious?

Is it based on love or habit?

Why do you give your attention to certain things -- social media, TV, news, ads, anything on our phones, memes, text chains -- and not others -- people, nature, music, poetry, silence, yourself, God?

If attention really is the greatest form of love and we are just giving our attention away to all who ask for it are we all just ridiculously promiscuous?

I wonder sometimes if my life energy is neutralized because I, too often, give my attention--and therefore my love--away to the banal, the meaningless, the absurd.

I wonder sometimes how much happier, fulfilled, purposeful and focused I could become if I was more selective with my most precious gift; the gift of my attention.

I am curious. Who or what is getting your attention these days?

And why?

Is your choice conscious? Is it based on your values, your goals, your aspirations? Or has your choosing where to give your attention become habitual, unconscious, even promiscuous?

What might change in your life if you altered who or what gets your attention?

What if attention really is the greatest form of love?

What then?