Attention is an Art Form

But we don’t always have access to a retreat center, a monastery, or a library, what we do have is this place, a base camp, a landmark for thinking beyond thought.

The metaphor of the base camp is particularly apt for this kind of contemplative scholarship. Like the mountaineer’s base camp—a place of preparation and return, of gathering resources a... See more

The genius of thought, in this view, lies not in conquering intellectual territory but in cultivating the patience and humility to dwell at its borders.

Genius is the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

This humility in thought isn’t weakness but a profound form of strength: the capacity to stay present with what we cannot master or contain.