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“If we refuse to think of anything except what we are doing or the person that we are with, we develop the habit of being present to the present moment. …
“Attention, then, is a way of doing what we are doing. It cracks the crust of the false self (our psychological awareness of daily life) in which we are the center of the universe while everything else is circling around our particular needs or desires. This is an illusion, but unfortunately it is the heritage we all bring with us from early life.”
Thomas Keating
The Thomas Keating Reader
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