Self and attention
Attention shapes the self and is, in turn shaped by it.
Bron: Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
Attention in the sense of mindfulness and attention creates the self and the self in turn creates the attention: that what you watch, What is your focus.
If your emphasis on love, you will notice a lot of love and that molds you into a loving being/self.
You are and become what you perceive, what you pay attention to, what has your attention and interest!
A rational person pays particular attention to his thinking, facts, numbers and statistics and that shapes and reinforces its rationality!
A person is thus controlled by his points of attention and also by his self, the two form a symbiotic relationship and thus are mutually dependent on each other.