What We Talk About When We Talk About God
But when we value these things more than we value God, we end up worshiping secondary things. Secondary things can never satisfy core longings. Only a love relationship with our Creator can do that.
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun • Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (Transforming Resources)
I guess I meditate because attention is my art form. I’d even wager that much of what we call art — paintings, novels, poetry — are secondary, byproducts of rarefied attention. Attention, then is the primary art form.
Why I Meditate
Most other resources on which we rely as individuals—such as food, money, and electricity—are things that facilitate life, and in some cases it’s possible to live without them, at least for a while. Attention, on the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attent... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Until we are in a state of conscious presence, we are merely whatever commands and occupies our attention. We want to keep “the rose” in mind, but our minds are drawn to judgment, worry, regret, discontent, desire. Passive attention merely reacts to whatever is strongest in our environment, especially whatever threatens or exalts our ego. As long a
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