In Leslie Young's "Outside", the rush and chaos of the outside world is tempered by the intimacy and warmth of simple touch.
Tag: attention
James Crews – Winter Morning
The art of gratitude is the art of paying attention, and when we incline our minds toward gratitude, gratitude blossoms.
‘Flecks of Foam on the Boar’s Mouth’ – Marcus Aurelius on Everyday Magic
The Roman Emperor and philosopher on mortality, change, nature and the importance of paying attention to the small and beautiful details.
Danusha Laméris – Stone
Danusha Lameris' poem Stone invokes the turning towards a way of being, a focused, cherishing attending.
We Are Always Halfway
BY DICK VERSTEGEN Being halfway is not discouraging, but liberating. It is the resting place of constant alertness.
Lindsay Rockwell – Watching the Light Shift
Both revelatory and mysterious, Lindsay Rockwell's "Watching the Light Shift" shows us the path without giving us the answers.
Jasmine Marshall Armstrong – Yellow-Headed Blackbirds
Observant and curious, poet Jasmine Marshall Armstrong draws inspiration and lessons from birds in her poem "Yellow-Headed Blackbirds".
Keeping Silence of the Heart: Cultivating Attention and Sobriety According to the Philokalia
Philokalia means 'love of the beautiful and the good', and the writings that were added to this collection were mostly concerned with the importance of awakening and developing attention and consciousness.
The Ecstasy of Paying Attention
When we are looking, says Anne Lamott, really actively observing, then we are overriding our tendency towards interpreting and distorting the objects of our perception.
What is Attention?
Alexandra Horowitz asks, what does it really mean to pay attention? Is it beneficial? And how can we be better at it?