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Attention is not about focusing on finding answers for Weil
It is more about seeing problems, and learning to sit with them even if we cannot find the answers.
In a subject like Mathematics, we can sit for a long time with a geometry problem, and at the end of an hour have made little progress.
But in that hour, we will have entered into “another more mysterious dimension” (Weil’s words).
This is a moral dimension: It is a space where, by our act of attention, we grasp what has always been the real mystery- the lives of our fellow human beings.
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