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The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland

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The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland
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“Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that.”

“How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timelessly beautiful meditation on presence over productivity, “is, of course, how we spend our lives.” And nowhere do we fail at the art of presence most miserably and most tragically than in urban life — in the city, high on the cult of productivity, where we float past

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