TWELVE THESES ON ATTENTION

It explores the concept of true attention, emphasizing its importance for genuine encounters, human relationships, and personal freedom, while discussing the societal challenges and potential sanctuaries needed to cultivate it.

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This form of attention and the knowledge it yields not only elicits more of the world, it elicits more of us. In waiting on the world in this way, applying time and strategic patience in the spirit of invitation, we draw out and are drawn out in turn. As the Latin root of attention suggests, as we extend ourselves into the world by attending to it,... See more

L. M. Sacasas • If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention

Attention as Worship

River Kenna innerwilds.blog

There is a long-standing, widespread belief that attention carries value. In English, attention is something that we “pay.” In Spanish, it is “lent.” The Swiss literary scholar Yves Citton, whose study of the digital age, “The Ecology of Attention,” argues against reducing attention to economic terms, suggested to me that it was traditionally consi... See more

The Battle for Attention

Attention, then, seems to allow the thinker’s mind to ask itself the full sequence of questions

Nancy Kline • More Time to Think: The power of independent thinking

The Sacrament of Attention

Michael Austin wayfaremagazine.org

Attention, however, intrinsically is a way in which, not a thing: it is intrinsically a relationship, not a brute fact. It is a ‘howness’, a something between, an aspect of consciousness itself, not a ‘whatness’, a thing in itself, an object of consciousness. It brings into being a world and, with it, depending on its nature, a set of values.

L. M. Sacasas • If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention

Attention as Worship

The Battle for Attention

Nancy Kline • More Time to Think: The power of independent thinking

The Sacrament of Attention

Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary