COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

6/08/2014

Bringing back a Wandering Attention - William James




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)



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