Spiritual
What if paying attention is a form of prayer?
Folded hands. Closed eyes. Words directed upward. But Mary Oliver spent her life doing something different. She walked into the woods, got quiet, and just looked. That was her version of devotion.
Attention is the beginning of devotion.— Mary Oliver, *Upstream*
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The thinker
Poet of the Natural World
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet whose work centered on close observation of nature and the moral weight of paying attention.
Based on Upstream: Selected Essays — Mary Oliver, summarised and reframed by Insights.
Part of these journeys
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