Optimal grip
“The question is not,‘Are you being formed?’” he said. “The question is, ‘What are you being formed by?’”
Grace Capobianco • What We Talk About When We Talk About God
“We writers are the raw nerve of the universe. Our job is to go out and feel things for people, then to come back and tell them how it feels to be alive. Because they are numb. Because we have forgotten.”
Luis Alberto Urrea • Tolfink Was Here: On Ursula K. Le Guin and Me
There comes a moment in life, often in the quietest of hours, when one realizes that the world will continue on its wayward course, indifferent to our desires or frustrations. And it is then, perhaps, that a subtle truth begins to emerge: the only thing we truly possess, the only thing we might, with enough care, exert some mastery over, is our min... See more
Bill Wear • The Quiet Art of Attention
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you w... See more
A quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
[And I remember she told me once, I’ll never forget this, she said, “Look, Zen is just being present in the moment. That’s all, being fully present to what is.” She said, “This is Zen.” But she said, “But then sometimes you lose that, and you’re not present in the moment. And so Zen is just noticing that you’ve lost it and just coming back. And tha
... See moreOne belief I have is that if you wish to be virtuous you will learn to eat cereal virtuously.
The novice of virtue is tempted by dreams of heroic acts, just as the novice sculptor daydreams of palatial monuments, or other grand work. But the master sculptor is extraordinary not because he has been commissioned for monumental bronzes (which may never... See more
The novice of virtue is tempted by dreams of heroic acts, just as the novice sculptor daydreams of palatial monuments, or other grand work. But the master sculptor is extraordinary not because he has been commissioned for monumental bronzes (which may never... See more
Simon Sarris • Breadcrumbs
People who experience flow describe it as “a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems,” and their descriptions of the joy of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an “optimal experience.” Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to raci
... See moreDaniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Your heart beats in poetic rhythm. James Finley guides listeners through the spiritual wisdom of T.S Eliot in Season 10 of Turning to the Mystics at cac.org/podcasts. . . James Finley explains, “When I read 'Four Quartets,' I was so touched by the depth of it and the beauty of it — I've been reading it ever since, really. T. S. Eliot is one of these people...who have been part of my inner world." . . Have you found yourself revisiting a favorite spiritual author time and time again? Share your experience with us! . . #TurningToTheMystics #JamesFinley #TSEliot #FourQuartets #ModernMystic #ChristianContemplative #ChristianMeditation #CenterForActionAndContemplation #ThomasMerton
instagram.comDiscipline forms an invisible structure in your life, a structure that attracts and holds the higher forces.