THE FIELDThe Field

Practice

Stay. Return. Offer.

Attention carried into a day. Not a chamber. A method you can take with you. Weil called school studies a training in waiting: thought emptied enough to receive what is actually before you.1

A room with a window. Light on a sill.

Stay

Thirty seconds with this room.

30s

First pass · Remain · Cue · Echo

Return

A prior noticing, still here.

    Then · Now · Next · My Field

    Offer

    Observation, then interpretation, then permission.

    Permission

    Weigh it

    Notes

    1. Simone Weil, “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God,” in Waiting for God, trans. Emma Craufurd (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1951).