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Pioneering Psychologist William James on Attention, Multitasking, and the Mental Habit That Sets Great Minds Apart
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
The Delicate Art of Connection: William James on the Most Important Attitude for Relationships
“Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer.”
The Art of Divination: D.H. Lawrence on the Power of Pure Attention
“An act of pure attention, if you are capable of it, will bring its own answer.”
William Godwin’s Stunning 1794 Advice to a Young Activist on How to Confront the Status Quo with Self-Possession, Dignity, and Persuasive Conviction
“Above all… abstain from harsh epithets and bitter invective… Truth can never gain by passion, violence, and resentment. It is never so strong as in the firm, fixed mind, that yields to the emotions neither of rage nor fear.”
William James on Consciousness and the Four Features of Transcendent Experiences
“Our normal waking consciousness… is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different… No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.”
William James on Love
“If it comes, it comes; if it does not come, no process of reasoning can force it. Yet it transforms the value of the creature loved.”
How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love
“Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged.”
Whom We Love and Who We Are: José Ortega y Gasset on Love, Attention, and the Invisible Architecture of Our Being
“Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss.”
The Original Marriage of Equals: The Love Letters of Feminism Founding Mother Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Philosopher William Godwin
“We love as it were to multiply our consciousness… even at the hazard… of opening new avenues for pain and misery to attack us.”
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