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Copyright © Sally Bayley 2018
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Cover design by Heike Schüssler
Sally Bayley Shipman asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Source ISBN: 9780008226855
Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780008226879
Version: 2018-04-27
For Angela Christine Bayley,
Soul of a Rose
‘Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.’
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (English edition, 1952, translated by Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr)
Contents
Preface: The Reader’s Backstory