Attentiveness Quote by Simone Weil Download Open image “Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.” — Simone Weil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attentiveness Heart Prayer
“Paying attention is being open and awake - ready to be seized by whatever is present to us in the present moment. This is… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts. — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts." — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention! — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value. — Peter Bart Copy Share Image
At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious & aware… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am not like… — H. D. Deve Gowda Copy Share Image
