Perceiving and Understanding

Different cultures have different ways of understanding truth, each with its own biases. The Athenians had a great respect for first principles and the structure of rhetoric as a way of organizing evidence to arrive at truth. Our own culture tends to focus on extensively on numbers and data rather than feeling, experience, or rhetoric. (following N

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Attention and Will, Simone Weil