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🕊️ Simone Weil on the Generosity of Attention
'Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.' For Simone Weil, attention isn't effortful focus but an emptying out — a waiting, a letting-go of expectation so that something real can arise. 'Our thought must be empty, waiting, not seeking anything.' A kind of secular prayer. For
Simone Weil on the generosity of attention
'Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.' For Simone Weil, attention isn't effortful focus but an emptying out — a waiting, a letting-go of expectation so that something real can arise. 'Our thought must be empty, waiting, not seeking anything.' A kind of secular prayer. For those who already know that presence is the real work, it reads less like a provocation than a mirror.
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