“Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.”
“I’m always amazed when adults say that children “just did that to get attention”. Naturally children who need attention will do all kinds of things to get it. Why not just give it to them?”
“If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.”
“Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.”
“The sky was painted over, a perfect uniform gray. On days like this the clouds probably absorbed the sounds from the surface of the earth. And not just sounds. All kinds of things. Perceptions, for example.”
“I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.”