Absorb

Are Easily Lost

Become More Precious When They End

Become More Valuable When Rare

Borrow Importance From Scarcity

Collect Around Success

Depend On Being Renewed

Disappear

Drift

Erode

Escape

Exist To Be Lost

Gather Around Success

Have Short Memories

Hide In Plain Sight

Ignore Boundaries

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Make Presence Visible

Need A Container

Need Renewal

Quietly Contract

Quietly Decide Outcomes

Quietly Shape Everything

Resist Ownership

Reward Concentration

Reward Generosity

Seem Permanent Until They Aren’t

Take Attention Without Asking

Transform Whatever They Touch

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is contrasted with concentration, which is the vein attempt to bring all one's ever-wandering energy to focus on a certain point. Attention boasts no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all one's energy, the energy of the brain, one's heart, everything, to attending.

To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point... but thought wanders away. . . Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending. . . (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

is different from concentration in that while concentration means trying to bring all your energy to focus on a certain point, complete attention means giving all your energy to attending.

to concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point... but thought wanders away... whereas attention has no control, no concentration. it is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending...

is distinguished from concentration by the fact that attention has no center.

What is the difference between attention and inattention' What is attention and what is concentration' . . . Attention has no centre. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

is not something that creates. It is a power for illuminating what already exist. It is a universal power of structuring.

For empiricism, attention creates nothing... it is simply a power for illuminating what already exist. For intellectualism, attention becomes a universal power of structuring, since perception must already contain 'the intelligible structure that attention draws out' (PhP, 29). (Landes 24)

is synonymous with prayer when it is absolute and unmixed.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. Simone Weil

, if paid closely, and directly, renders almost anything interesting.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

is a hoax of a concept. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them. Jerry Seinfeld

is a bringer of truth, beauty, and goodness when brought fully to bare on an object. Thus, teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act.

The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.

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