Weil held that highest-degree attention is identical to prayer and presupposes faith and love

Evidence

The radical philosopher Simone Weil famously wrote, shortly before her death, that “attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.” She said that, in its purest form, true attention presupposes both faith and love. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 77

Categorization

• SHARE: A compact Weil datum worth sending to anyone teaching attention or contemplative practice.