in order to know what anything truly is, the mind must first turn the light of its knowing upon itself. That is, before attending to objects so as to know what they truly are, it must first attend to itself to know what it truly is. The mind must shine the light of its knowing away from the objects it seems to know, towards itself, towards the very knowing with which it knows its knowledge. Attention must attend to attention itself.
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Source: The Nature of Consciousness