> Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

lian.org/2015/08/19/simone-weil-attention-gravity-and-grace/

#SimoneWeil /HT #MariaPopova for #TheMarginalian on #Attention #AttentionAndTheWIll #TheWillAndAttention
https://www.themargina

> Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/08/19/simone-weil-attention-gravity-and-grace/

#SimoneWeil /HT #MariaPopova for #TheMarginalian on #Attention #AttentionAndTheWIll #TheWillAndAttention

“The wisdom that comes from maturity is recognized through a disciplined refusal to choose between or isolate three powerful dynamics that form human identity: what has happened, what is happening now and what is about to occur.”

~ David Whyte

I love this idea, via #TheMarginalian

https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/david-whyte-anger-forgiveness

> My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind — without selective interest, experience... chaos... [WJ:William James]
> .. commonplace and utterly radical for us today — somehow, mesmerized by the glowing rectangles we carry everywhere, we seem to have relinquished this most elemental form of agency shaping our experience of life.[MP:}
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/03/25/william-james-attention/
#MariaPopova with #SimoneWeil and #WIlliamJames at #TheMarginalian
/HT @MariaPopova

> ... there is no reason why some of us should not take on the job of keeping alive through the apocalyptic histor­ical vista that stretches before us, a modest thoughtfulness which, without pretending to solve everything, will constantly be prepared to give some human meaning to everyday life.
#AlbertCamus on #ModestThoughtfulness #HumanMeaning #EveryDayLife quotoed by #MariaPopova #TheMarginalian

> The eyes of an animal when they consider a man are attentive and wary. The same animal may well look at other species in the same way. He does not reserve a special look for man. But by no other species except man will the animal’s look be recognised as familiar. Other animals are held by the look.

Man becomes aware of himself returning the look.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/01/why-look-at-animals-john-berger-about-looking/
#MariaPopova #TheMarginalian quotes #JohnBerger's #AboutLooking #WhyLookAtAnimals #AnimalViews #動物視線

A must follow for anyone that wants to learn a lot about life 🧿 @mariapopova

#time #IsItAlive?
#NinaSimone #TheMarginalian

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/13/time/

https://www.themarginalian.org/the-universe-in-verse/

MARIA POPOVA, The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) is a fascinating one-woman show that's gone on every day for many years. She writes about beauty, science, grace, humanity, inhumanity... Creation and destruction. Every day. Always true. Always marvelous.

#TheMarginalian #BeautifulScience #Humanity #CreateANewWorld

"If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated."

#AlbertEinstein letter of support to #MarieCurie
By #MariaPopova at #TheMarginalian

https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/19/einstein-curie-letter/

> "A certain power of enduring boredom is therefore essential to a happy life, and is one of the things that ought to be taught to the young" ... the great childhood joy and developmental achievement of learning to “do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself,” a testament to #Kierkegaard’s insistence that “the more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.” ..
#BertrandRussel quoted with others by #TheMarginalian's #MariaPopova