Perception is not enough to transform. To verbally understand is not enough to turn one's life around. Transformation needs alertness.
There is this insane inertia in one's life. One starts a million times. One begins again and again. Although one starts over, one does not transform. Our life is the same. This inertia is a glue that one experiences every day. This inattention is an ocean where one lives. Will does not need discipline, it needs necessity and alertness.
Consider your day. How much of your day is lived in a state of great alertness? One may be alert when one reads or when one begins for the million-and-one time, but then the next moment inattention takes over. We live in our mind.
Thoughts, the ocean, the glue are there again. Alertness and readiness for life at every instant is not how one lives one's life. One vaguely pays attention to how to be a success. Although even there, seriousness is lacking. One wishes, one hopes, one chatters. But attention is vague even for what one desires. Could it be this total attention at every waking second is what we need to understand and turn our life around?
Attention when one begins. Attention when one walks. Attention when one dusts off his desk. Attention when one enters a room. Attention when thoughts arise. Attention when impatience, desperation or hope arise.
Attention, therefore love for one's life.