Deuteronomy 4:19 · World English Bible
and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
A gaze held long enough turns into allegiance, and that is how a man acquires a master he never chose. Attention works as a supply line: whatever it feeds grows in size and in feeling, and feeling repeatedly given becomes devotion, and devotion hardens into service.
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A gaze held long enough turns into allegiance, and that is how a man acquires a master he never chose.
Attention works as a supply line: whatever it feeds grows in size and in feeling, and feeling repeatedly given becomes devotion, and devotion hardens into service. Where the eyes rest, the energy goes, and the energy goes whether or not a decision was ever made.
The lights were handed to every people under heaven, and nothing in them competes with the God who allotted them. The promotion happens inside the one looking. Let a good thing own the eyes long enough and a man organizes his days around it, calls that love, and hands the direction of his life to something that was only ever a light in the sky.
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If your days were measured only by where your eyes went, what would they say you serve?
Whatever a person dwells on at the end is what they have been becoming all along. Attention is not watching, it is forming.
You become what you give your attention to. Choose what you look at or it will choose you.
Where attention goes, craving follows, and after craving comes attachment. Nothing has to be decided for a person to end up owned.
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