Sunday, December 1, 2024

“Murdoch believed we should cultivate a kind of ‘mindfulness’. By making a habit of focusing our attention on everyday things that are valuable or virtuous, we hone our ability to act well at decisive moments. ‘Anything that alters consciousness in the direction of unselfishness will do,’ she wrote.”

John-Paul Flintoff, How to Change the World referring to philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch