Saturday, March 19, 2016

"Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Eulogy to Her Soul Mate"

"Attention without feeling, I began to learn, is only a report. An openness — an empathy — was necessary if the attention was to matter. Such openness and empathy M. had in abundance, and gave away freely… I was in my late twenties and early thirties, and well filled with a sense of my own thoughts, my own presence. I was eager to address the world of words — to address the world with words. Then M. instilled in me this deeper level of looking and working, of seeing through the heavenly visibles to the heavenly invisibles"
http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/20/mary-oliver-molly-malone-cook-our-world/

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