Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate
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Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate
Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.
~ Simone Weil
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/08/19/simone-weil-attention-gravity-and-grace/
More than anything else, attention is an act of connection.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Attention is the beginning of devotion,” writes the poet Mary Oliver, pointing to the fact that distraction and care are incompatible with each other: you can’t truly love a partner or a child, dedicate yourself to a career or to a cause—or just savor the pleasure of a stroll in the park—except to the extent that you can hold your attention on the... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
attention can also be understood simply as the name for the contact the mind makes with the world, and, if it is sufficiently attenuated, our capacity and inclination to care, desire, love, and act also suffer.