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“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention over and over again is the very root of judgement, character and will. No one is compos sui if he have it not. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence. WILLIAM JAMES”
― Gay Watson, Attention

“Attention is at the heart of psychotherapy: first to bring awareness to problems, patterns and pain, second to control unconsidered reactions and replace them with considered responses.”
― Gay Watson, Attention

“It is probably difficult for the average person to imagine becoming accustomed to a yacht, servants, and limousines, but consider how you would feel if you could never take a hot shower again. Many people in wealthier nations have become used to this pleasure and actually think of it as a necessity. Actually, a hot shower is clearly a luxury, especially when we consider that most of the world’s population has never experienced such a pleasure.”
― Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism

“In general, emotional ties are very important to human beings. But they still contain projections, and it is essential to withdraw these projections in order to attain to oneself and to objectivity. Emotional relationships are relationships of desire, tainted by coercion and constraint; something is expected from the other person, and that makes him and ourselves unfree. Objective cognition lies hidden behind the attraction of the emotional relationship; it seems to be the central secret. Only through objective cognition is the real coniunctio possible.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections