attention is sacred

exploring the sacred nature of "attention"

Being with somebody for an hour is much easier than paying attention to somebody for an hour. The former requires only physical (or virtual) proximity, and we do it every day. The latter happens only rarely. It requires us to donate all our emotional, spiritual, and intellectual energy to being with another person. I can recall only a few occasions... See more

Michael Austin • The Sacrament of Attention

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Attention as Worship

River Kenna innerwilds.blog

Stuart Evans

going slow

calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.

Keely Adler and • 134 cards

Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom

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15/ That whole experience taught me something unforgettable - attention is an ACTION. It changes things. When you give attentive curiosity to the world, people notice Sometimes they respond to the implied invitation. Are there... See more

Matt Jugo x.com

Stuart Evans

What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?

I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more

Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling

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Narrating and listening foster each other. The narrative community is a community of careful listeners. A particular kind of attention is inherent to careful listening. People who listen carefully are oblivious to themselves; they immerse themselves in what they hear: "The more self-forgetful the listener is, the more deeply what he listens to is

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We don’t track time on site on Sublime. We also don’t track passive consumption. We only track people actively building and curating their library (which itself is not a perfect metric - because we don’t want to incentivize collecting. we want to incentivize creating with your knowledge) but is better than time on platform.

If a platform enables

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