Kavannah. Direction or intention that allows us to offer words or deeds as gifts of inner devotion
"The truth is that the absolute contrast between expression (kavannah) and empathy (keva) exists only in abstraction. In human experience they are intimately intertwined; the one cannot happen without the other. And act of empathy is involved in genuine expression, and profound empathy generates expression."
R. Abraham Joshua Heschel , "Man's Quest for God", p.31