ATTENTION and WISDOM

Attention is one thing and Wisdom another. Sheep and goats, oxen and buffaloes, camel and asses have attention. They are mention so many times through stories symbolizing the VIRTUE OF BEING ATTENTIVE.       But they DO NOT HAVE WISDOM
Consideration is the mark of ATTENTION, cutting off  that  of WISDOM.
A good symbolism is in the work of the barley-reapers. They, with the left hand, seize a barley's bunch,
and with the right hand, they hold a sickle (tool with a curved blade), to cut off the barley with it.
In life people seize their mental processes with "ATTENTION" to them,  and by their "WISDOM" they cut off the rough edges, the defilements that distract their attention.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgments simpler through knowing WHAT TO PAY ATTENTION TO and WHAT TO IGNORE.                              
(Edward de Bono)

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Do not be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they are not paying attention to you.
(Eleanor Rooselvet)

Money and happiness are like birds; the more you chase them, the more they will slip away from you, but if you TURN YOUR ATTENTION TO other things, they will come to you and be with you resting in your shoulders.
(Angela Bernales)

When we really PAY ATTENTION TO EACH OTHER in a very quiet and delighted interest,  a magnetic and creative FORCE inside each of us begins to spring and cast up new thoughts, like a fountain of water of unexpected force are surfacing to the earth, in the same way is the unexpected WISDOM.
 (Angela Bernales)