‘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.’

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Philosopher and activist Simone Weil on the power of sustained, intense focus:

"The amount of creative genius in any period is strictly in proportion to the amount of extreme attention."

Source: Gravity and Grace​