4-20: Feel your great spotlight of attention on a single thing: whether it’s a tree, a button, a dish, a great rock, or a star. Focusing helps to bring into alignment our well-being. It calms our mental chatter and quiets our raging rivers of feeling. It brings to light our inner strength and purpose. Do you sometimes ask, “What is the meaning of life?” If so, focus your attention on the present moment. It has its own meaning. And when we focus all our attention on a fellow human being, without thinking of how we’ll respond to something they’re saying or what we look like, we’re creating a receptacle for their spirit and their spiritual growth. It’s tremendously empowering. Harder still is to point that spotlight so that it’s focusing on yourself, so that your great heart, that overflows with kindness and courage, is brilliantly revealed. We’re told that allowing ourselves to be vulnerable is a good thing. I think it’s not because we are humbled and weakened by our vulnerability, but because by doing so we shed the outer layers of armor and mistrust of ourselves, and instead we reveal our hopes, our strength, and our powerful inner light.