Thought for the Day

[. . .] it does seem to me that attention is kind of the entrance

gate to anything and everything. [. .] Nothing in this world

can be done well if you're not paying attention. If you're 

distracted, if you haven't learned how to bring yourself in an

immediate and wholehearted way into whatever it is you are

doing, in a way, you don't have your life. [. . .]

~ Jane Hirshfield

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Quoted from "On Time, Mystery, and Kinship: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield" in Emergence Magazine, October 24, 2024 (Online) The conversation was conducted by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and is available as audio at the link.

Jane Hirshfield, Poet, Essayist, Translator; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences