unselfing

is a methodology of altering our mood or state of thinking whereby we give our attention over to nature (for example to that bird passing there) in order to clear our minds of selfish care.

InThe Sovereignty of the Good: 'The most obvious thing in our surroundings which is an occasion for 'unselfing' is what is popularly called beauty I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious of my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to thinking of the other matter it seems less important. And of course this is something which we may do deliberately: give attention to nature in order to clear our minds of selfish care.

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