Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Simone Weil. On this quote, Stephen Mitchell made this comment:

“I love that. I think that could be as close as someone can get to a wonderful definition of prayer. In that sense, prayer has nothing spiritual or religious about it. A mathematician working at a problem or a little kid trying to pick out scales on the piano is a person at prayer. She’s not saying prayer is absolute unmixed attention; it’s the other way. The attention itself is the quality that she wants to call prayer. So whatever context you’re putting it in, whether it’s inside a church or inside a toy box, that’s the quality that is the sacred one.”

(Ah! Thank you, dhammanovice)

(Source: stillcuriosity)

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