But I knew also that by this awakening of consciousness, this perception of my perception, I held the key to that world of transfiguration that is not a mysterious sub-world, but the true world from which we are banished by our ignorance. This has nothing to do with attention. Transfiguration is complete. Attention never is. Transfiguration knows itself in its positive sufficiency.
Attention aims at attaining some day such sufficiency.
It cannot be said, of course, that attentiveness is empty. On the contrary, it craves fullness. But this craving is not fulfillment.