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Attention and Affliction
Read Weil's key passages on attention, gravity, decreation, and the void.
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. [...] Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. [...] We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will. [...] Affliction is a form of suffering so profound that it strips an individual of their sense of identity, leaving them utterly exposed to the void. [...] Decreation: to make something created pass into the uncreated. A tragic bus accident is destruction. Putting your personal needs aside to help when you only want to vomit is decreation. We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves. — Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1947); The Marginalian 'Simone Weil on Attention and Grace' (2015); Antilogicalism 'Gravity and Grace' (2025); Living Water (2025)”