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How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love
Paying close attention is an art and an act of the spirit | Aeon Essays
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The kind of attention we bring to bear on the world changes the nature of the world we attend to,
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
Only in some pitiful dreamer, some philosopher, poet, or romancer, or when the common practical man becomes a lover, does the hard externality give way, and a gleam of insight into the ejective world... the vast world of inner life beyond us, so different from that of outer seeming, illuminate our mind. Then the whole scheme of our customary values... See more
Maria Popova • The Art of Human Connection: Pioneering Psychologist and Philosopher William James on the Most Important Attitude for Relationships
Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way. The fact that a place is special to some because of its great peace and beauty may, by that very fact, make it for another a resource to exploit, in such a way that its
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