Have you ever given attention completely, totally to something? Are you giving attention now so completely to what is being said? Are you? Obviously not. To give attention means give your mind, your heart, your whole being to find out – not from books or from somebody else but to find out for yourself. Unless this takes place, unless the mind is completely free of all distortion, which is all form of effort, what is truth can never be found and one cannot possibly live fully.