This sounds easier than it actually is

This sounds easier than it actually is. Our volition and the practical pursuits at structure and organize our lives, is what keeps us from recognizing the full range of experience. We regularly confuse what is urgent and immediate with what is actually important or miraculous. Our habits, even the very good ones, close us off from what we might see and we might become. Blind and dad wrote James, does the clamor of our own practical interests make us to all other things. This investigation of perception gave James and information that would later grow into a full-fledged philosophical insight about the scope and meaning of consciousness.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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