"the act of attention . . . must conduct us to that brutal threshhold and pull us across it."

Christian Menghi (cropped)

"La verité de l’acte d’attention dont nous parlons doit nous conduire à ce seuil brutal et nous le faire franchir."

     Raymond Duval, "La dimension humaine de la vie spirituelle." La vie spirituelle 129 (1975):  857 (852-867).  The threshhold of eternity is death.  (The durable as distinguished from immediate conditions of attention are silence and solitude on the one hand, and the memento mori on the other.  Together they are an "amplification across the whole of one's life of the particular and precise attitude of the retreat" (856).)