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Why I Meditate
We lose our focus precisely because these thoughts need our attention and we refuse to give it to them. This is why they keep sneaking up on our attention and stealing it away. This is how it is that we come to know ourselves as we settle deeply into the act of prayer. Most
Alan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
there is very little time or attention given to what you could almost call learning the art of inwardness; or a pedagogy of interiority. That’s why I find the aesthetic things, like poetry, fiction, good film, theater, drama, dance, and music, actually awaken that inside you and remind you that there is a huge interiority within you.
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
For Augustine, the interior journey into memory is central to this expansion of the soul-mansion. In Book X of his Confessions, which I think is one of the most beautiful things in all western culture, he writes this - it makes me think of Morpheus and Neo in their white room:I come to the fields and spacious palaces of my memory, where are the tre
... See morephilosophyforlife.org • Mind Palaces: The Art of Psycho-Technics, or Soul-Craft — Philosophy for Life
