Don’t Pay Attention, Just Be Attentive

“Attention is not about something; it is the way you are.” —Sadhguru

Q: How to deal with giving attention to everything but at the same time having the control on what to attend to without attending to unnecessary details?

Sadhguru: You do not have to give attention to anything or everything. There is no such thing. This is the fallacy of modern psychology that they have told you, that you can pay attention to this or that. I do not pay attention to anything. I am just attentive. Everything that is there naturally comes into my attention. When you wake up in the morning, do you pay attention and see if the sun has come up or not? No. You are awake, sun comes into you. Everything that is there comes into you because you are alert.

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