Status Updates From Meditation As Contemplative...

“The end we seek is insight that can serve us in life, making us more fit to address the problems we meet with deep multifaceted understanding that does not spring from instrumental reason alone. The fruit of contemplative inquiry should be a wisdom born in freedom that can serve love.” Packing in so many of The Words, yo.

“Contemplating nature is learning to carve the contours of the unseen, and to draw the fluid forms of life.”

Sense-based meditation is where it’s at.

“Poetry demands that we respect its time-organism. When reading fast, you may understand the lines, but the artistry is inaccessible, the time-organism violated, the poem is dead. Thought can move at lightning speed, but the art of the poem demands a slower tempo”; “Time must slow down in order for us to enter into the object of our attention with our heart as well as our head.”