Sublime

Dr. James Williams—who works on the philosophy and ethics of technology at Oxford University—he told me: “If we want to do what matters in any domain—any context in life—we have to be able to give attention to the right things…. If we can’t do that, it’s really hard to do anything.”

Carl Rogers

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually.

“fully human”

things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.

William James famously said, “when you have a choice to make and you don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.”

Consciousness is a gathering of knowledge sufficient to generate, in the midst of flowing images, automatically, the notion that the images are mine, are happening in my living organism, and that the mind is…well, mine too! The secret of consciousness is gathering knowledge and exhibiting that knowledge as a certificate of identity for the mind. Co

the psyche is the subject of our perceptions, the perceiver through fantasy, rather than the object of our perceptions.