William James Quote: The total possible consciousness may be split into...

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

Source: Principles of Psychology - Chapter 8 - 1890

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The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

— William James

Source: The Principles of Psychology - 1890