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Loveday Farmer
“Attention to the present moment is devotion.”
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.” – José Ortega y Gasset
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.” - Mary Oliver
“The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.” – W.H. Auden
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small it takes time—we haven’t time—and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
“Children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves.” - Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn
Tom Critchlow • LF:13 Family Futures
“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.” - Susan Sontag
“The real heroes aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention.” – John Green