Most often when we look at something, without our knowing, we interfere with what we are looking at. We don t want to see it entirely. And anytime we do look at something, it is likely that the way we want that thing to be will put a haze, a contempt haze, around the object. Since marriage begins with the desire of two people not so much to see each other but to accommodate themselves to each other, they never really see each other. There s a haze of comfort and fear around.
Attention is knowledge when it s determined.
To give attention to something means that we don t mind knowing it, and it s very pleasing. When someone interests us that much that, while we approve, we want to know that person that is very good too, very pleasing. But it is a kind of feeling that occurs very rarely. In most persons there is a factory, a subjective factory, very complicated and sometimes it takes the form of the senses which interferes with a fulness of knowledge. I have mentioned the person who read a book and on every page found he had to skip three lines.