Famous Quotes / W. H. Auden

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W. H. Auden: "To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer."


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IdolLandscapeOneselfOther
PoemPrayPrayerPraying
PrimaryProblemSchoolteacherSecular
SomeoneSomethingTaskTeach
TechniqueTrueWhenever
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