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Why I Meditate
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click
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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
It is a common learning technique and meditative practice and can help you get to that creative part of you that can dream and imagine new realities beyond the current one. Call it soul, Spirit, your true self. It doesn’t matter. Whatever you call it, you need to develop the part of you that can notice what you are noticing.
Mary Morrissey • Brave Thinking: The Art and Science of Creating a Life You Love
One meditation
Work can be beautiful and spiritual, but it is not a full replacement for a habit that maintains your connection with reality.
By meditation, I do not mean sitting in a dark room and letting thoughts pass, although that is one incredibly viable route.
Meditation, for all I'm concerned, is a way of life.
A way of perceiving the world thr... See more
Work can be beautiful and spiritual, but it is not a full replacement for a habit that maintains your connection with reality.
By meditation, I do not mean sitting in a dark room and letting thoughts pass, although that is one incredibly viable route.
Meditation, for all I'm concerned, is a way of life.
A way of perceiving the world thr... See more