Attentiveness to God...
"consists of suspending our thought, leaving it detached, empty, and ready to be penetrated by the object...All wrong translations, all absurdities in geometry problems, all clumsiness of style, and all faulty connections of ideas in compositions and essays, all such things are due to the fact that thought has seized upon some idea too hastily, and being thus prematurely blocked, is not open to the truth.  The cause is always that we have wanted to be too active; we have wanted to carry out a search...We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them."  -Simone Weil