Attention gathers where Reality fires an expectation hard enough to show what can survive contact with the actual world. … readThe Kiln Attention Enters

Attention is the mind rerouting through Reality when the road drawn by expectation no longer reaches the actual situation. … readThe Route Attention Takes

Attention is stolen when Reality changes the key of a situation, making the old expectation harmonically unusable. … readThe Key Attention Changes

Attention arrives when the private forecast inside a person fails, and Reality has to be faced as weather rather than scenery. … readThe Forecast Attention Breaks

Attention is not drawn to the biggest fact in the garden. It moves toward the place where Reality grows through the expectation that tried to contain it. … readThe Garden Attention Enters

The Actual does not win attention by being loud. It wins when it passes through a private lens of expectation and lands somewhere the self did not prepare to see. … readThe Lens Attention Looks Through

Attention is not a spotlight you aim. It is a turnstile Reality opens when the ratio of Actual to Expectation grows large enough to pay the fare. … readThe Gate Attention Passes Through

We like to say attention is paid, as if the hand decides when to open. More often it rises under a force the self notices only after the room has already flooded. … readThe Tide Attention Cannot Refuse

We do not notice the world because it is true. We notice the part of the world that expectation tried to keep out of court. … readThe Evidence Attention Admits