Daily bread 06/04/2025

• Midweek Sanity Oasis: How We Render Reality and Attention as an Instrument of Love

  • we live out our lives in a subjective reality defined by what we agree to attend to
  • we live largely in the territory of the unanswerable because there is no pure attention — the aperture of our attention is constricted by myriad conditionings and focused by a brain honed on millions of years of evolutionary necessities, many of which we have long outgrown.
  • “the very brain mechanisms which succeed in simplifying the world so as to subject it to our control militate against a true understanding of it,”
  • to braid neuropsychology (the way our brains shape our impression of reality), epistemology (the way we come to know anything at all), and metaphysics (our yearning to wrest meaning from fundamental truth as we try to discern the nature of the universe)
  • “love is the quality of attention we pay to things.”
  • The world we experience — which is the only one we can know — is affected by the kind of attention we pay to it.
  • “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,”
  • “the type, and extent, of attention we pay changes the nature of the world that we experience,”

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