Attention is the beginning of devotion - AOKAY

June 13, 2025 quotes

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.

— Mary Oliver

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