The Discipline of Attention: Turning the Soul Toward Beauty @RalstonCollegeSavannah
The Discipline of Attention: Turning the Soul Toward Beauty @RalstonCollegeSavannah
Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Where we direct our time and energy shapes the soul. In this reflection, Mari Otsu considers the profound effects of attention: how the human psyche is disordered when absorbed in what degrades, and how it is elevated when turned toward what is beautiful.

For a season, one may chose to devote oneself entirely to contemplating beauty—an experiment in attention that reveals a timeless truth: what we behold, we become.
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