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When we become preoccupied with our own thoughts, feelings, needs and body problems, we have little attention left over to notice what is being done to support us.
A Natural Approach to Mental Wellness
Gregg Krech
That, to me, is the biggest thing that came out of this strange journey I went on: to acknowledge that I could care this much and this deeply. To acknowledge that it really matters to me whether or not, like, songbirds survive — you know, it shouldn't be odd to express these things; it should be completely normal. But it's not.
On 'Ignorance,' the Weather Station Compels You to Care
self-titled effort
As John Dewey wrote a century ago, “It seems almost incredible to us, for example, that things which we know very well, could have escaped recognition in past ages. We incline to account for it by attributing congenital stupidity to our forerunners and by assuming superior native intelligence on our own part. But the explanation is that their modes of life did not call for attention to such facts, but held their minds riveted to other things.”
Breaking Bread With the Dead
Alan Jacobs
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