paying attention to
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.