When asked about my view of meditation my stock answer has been, “I have a profound relationship with meditation; I think about it every day.” It’s true. Every day for years I’ve heard the call of contemplative solitude, and nearly every day I’ve turned a deaf ear. I’ve run from mental discipline like Jonah escaping the call of God until he ends up in the putrid belly of the whale. My addiction-prone, ADD brain always wants to look to the outside to get away from itself. As a result, I tend to oscillate between excessive, multitasking busyness and a proclivity for “vegging out” in ways that
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