“One must look for the eternal in the alluvium of the insignificant, in that which revolves around the eternal like an erratic comet, without ever entering its ordered constellation.” This great Spanish mystic/philosopher from the early 20th century grasped what C.S. Lewis described as the “sin of misplaced concreteness.” Our hard-wired familiarity with the mundane of this beautiful world in which we live can keep us from paying “attention” to the Life flowing around us often in the most easily overlooked phenomena of our day to day life. The “ordered constellation” of the mundane is certainly important; but if we never learn to meditate, perhaps on something as mundane as a flickering candle flame, or the giggles of a baby, or the “birds of the air…and the flowers of the field”, we will need to ponder the profound question of humans, like Jesus, who have asked, “What shall it profit a man/woman if s/he gains the whole world and loses his/her own soul, or what shall a human give in exchange for his/her soul?” Western culture assuages its rapacity with an attraction for “stuff,” failing to appreciate Shakespeare’s parallel quip to the Jesus-question above, “Within be rich, without be fed no more.”