Alex Burns

Attention is a vector: there is always a direction to its magnitude. To attend is to stretch toward (Latine, attendere), like a limb straining or bend

If you constantly feed yourself gossip, you become suspicious. If you feed yourself beauty, you grow more sensitive to it. Attention is the mouth of b

Belief on its own is abstract; practice is belief made flesh through repetition.

The point of exercising focus is not perfection, what matters is the daily return and the refusal to let attention scatter. The point isn’t to dissoci