@phokarlsson I think of this passage/essay of hers all the time: https://t.co/xe9sU1lx0i https://t.co/3TOCck2vqG
@phokarlsson I think of this passage/essay of hers all the time: https://t.co/xe9sU1lx0i https://t.co/3TOCck2vqG
Attention is the beginning of love.
So many people, adults and children, have never experienced having someone give them their undivided, focused, and attuned attention; they have not experienced love, fully.
And that’s a big reason people are broken.
Going Godwardx.comIn the aftermath of the tragic, when silence or “being with” or an embrace may be the only appropriate responses, then only embodied presence will do. Its consolations are irreplaceable.
L. M. Sacasas • Impossible Silences - The Convivial Society
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil
― Simone Weil