Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention
First, she gives this notion a particular twist: by embracing the going and not the getting there, we will ultimately get to somewhere more important than the original destination. Even should we fail to solve a geometry problem at the end of an hour, we will nevertheless have penetrated into what Weil calls “another more mysterious dimension.”16 T
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Reverence is the work of attention. In fact, reverence is attention.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
We might be predisposed to think of attention as a laborious effort of the will. But I don’t think this is quite right. Our attention can, for example, be solicited by what is beautiful or compelling in such a way that we will find it a pleasure to give and sorrow to withdraw. As Simone Weil has put it, “Attention is bound up with desire. Not with ... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Face Stares Back
the practice of paying close attention.