Going Toward Consciousness Jeanne de Salzmann has the possibility to awaken to the higher, to be. The means is the attention. In sleep the attention is taken. It must be freed and turned in another direction. This is the separation of “I” and “me.” This mobilization of the attention is the first step toward the possibility of self-remembering. With an attention that is voluntarily directed, we go toward consciousness.
We must see where our attention is. Where is our attention when we remember ourselves? Where is our attention in life? Order can be born in us only if we enter into direct contact with disorder. We are not in the disorder. We are the state of disorder. If I look at what I really am, I see the disorder. And where there is a direct contact, there is an immediate action. I begin to realize that my Presence is where my attention is.
I believe I need to pay attention when, in fact, I need to see and know my inattention.
A conscious attention means something that is between two worlds.
It is only by working to be present that my attention will develop.
I will always lose myself unless my attention goes both toward life and toward the inside.
Attention is the conscious force, the force of consciousness. It is a divine force.
We must see where our attention is. Where is our attention when we remember ourselves? Where is our attention in life? Order can be born in us only if we enter into direct contact with disorder. We are not in the disorder. We are the state of disorder. If I look at what I really am, I see the disorder. And where there is a direct contact, there is an immediate action. I begin to realize that my Presence is where my attention is.
I believe I need to pay attention when, in fact, I need to see and know my inattention.
A conscious attention means something that is between two worlds.
It is only by working to be present that my attention will develop.
I will always lose myself unless my attention goes both toward life and toward the inside.
Attention is the conscious force, the force of consciousness. It is a divine force.