Monday, January 5, 2015

goodbye

“Paying attention to experience requires new skills, or at leaf new habits….Our attitudes about experience are usually governed by familiar concepts, and those familiar concepts don’t really do justice to the great variety we actually experience.”-Alva Noe
note: excerpts from: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/12/30/373952810/in-search-of-a-science-of-consciousness

This is my last entry for now on this blog. I don’t know when I’ll start it again.

Saturday, January 3, 2015

What's love?

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”-Thomas Merton

Friday, January 2, 2015

a lesson

"I was humbled on the mountain, in an almost biblical sense, virtually every day.”

note: from Running to the Mountain, A Midlife Adventure by Jon Katz


Thursday, January 1, 2015

In the beginning

"The formation of faith is an ever-growing and deepening understanding of Divine Reality and our own reality…” -Richard Rohr

note: from Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation