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noticing and growing curious about

how: “First, pay close, foolish, even absurd attention to things.”

committing to a lifetime of engagement: to noticing the world around you, to actively looking for small distillations of beauty, to making time to contemplate and reflect.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”

Through attention and curiosity, we can suspend our tendency toward instrumental understanding—seeing things or people one-dimensionally as the products of their functions—and instead sit with the unfathomable fact of their existence, which opens up toward us but can never be fully grasped or known.