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, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
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Because attention determines what will or will not appear in consciousness, and because it is also required to make any other mental events—such as remembering, thinking, feeling, and making decisions—happen there, it is useful to think of it as psychic energy. Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work it is
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Having recognized how much of our lives have been lived in a state of heedlessness, our attention merely being drawn to this or that, or merely reacting to events, we can now recognize the possibility of assuming responsibility for the precious substance of our attention. When I can become attention itself, it feels as if attention is arising withi
... See moreKabir Helminski • The Mysterion: Rumi and the Secret of Becoming Fully Human
‘We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will…Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. If we turn our mind towards the good, it is impossible that little by little the whole soul will not be attracted thereto in spite of itself.’ Sim
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