Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James was interested in mindfulness and attention:
“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. No one is compos sui [master of himself] if he have it not. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.”
William James, Psychology: Briefer Course, p. 424 (Harper Torchbooks, 1961)
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James was interested in mindfulness and attention:
“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. No one is compos sui [master of himself] if he have it not. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.”
William James, Psychology: Briefer Course, p. 424 (Harper Torchbooks, 1961)
Quite a stimulating quote.
ReplyDeleteFor me I would say that one should learn how to unlearn what they have learned and for anything like a "wandering attention" that one should first learn why it wandered away in the first place and furthermore why one would ever think that they themselves were not with that wandering attention throughout its wandering making themselves a wanderer. Thus all wanderers should be questioned but first one should see that for any wandering-away that something must be there first before it can/could wander which would lead one to inevitably believe that either they were capable of knowing of such a wandering away from themselves without themselves as actually present with the thing or that they were present within that "wandering attention" and thus have some memory of the thing. If the latter would be the case then that memory would have to be questioned as well.