Attention and Will
The document explores the themes of attention, belief, prayer, desire, and the pursuit of truth while addressing the concepts of sin, wretchedness, and the value of solitude.
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Attention and Will
Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Curran Dwyer added
- Attention is all we have. According to philosopher Simone Weil, it is sacred — the rarest form of generosity:
“Attention alone, that attention which is so full that the ‘I’ disappears, is required of me. I have to deprive all that I call ‘I’ of the light of my attention and turn it onto that which cannot be conceived.”
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Parker C and added
- There is something in our soul,” she wrote, “that loathes true attention much more violently than flesh loathes fatigue. That something is much closer to evil than flesh is. That is why, every time we truly give our attention, we destroy some evil in ourselves.”
from Attending to the World by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
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