@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 rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil
― Simone Weil
Carissa Potter • How to feel alive again.
Compassion, in contrast, means that I identify with the afflicted individual so fully that I feed him for the same reason I feed myself: because we are both hungry. In other words, I have paid him attention.
Robert Zaretsky • Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention
“attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”