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How astonishing to remember that nothing has inherent color, that color is not a property of objects but of the light that falls upon them, reflected back. So too with the light of the mind — it is attention that gives the world its vibrancy, its kaleidoscopic beauty. (Maria Popova)
For to pay attention to the world, to seek its stories, to run your fingers along some crack of rock or furrow of tree bark, to admire a raptor in flight, to look, closely, at the construction of a previously unencountered wildflower — to wonder and to seek answers to how these things might have come to be in the world — are themselves acts of devotion, ways of knowing, ways of longing for communion. (Richard Nevle, via Maria Popova)
Simone Weil:
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. (Simone Weil)
Mary Oliver goes further:
Attention is the beginning of devotion. (Mary Oliver, Upstream)