‘The Only Way To Be Free’ – Oren Jay Sofer on Why Mindfulness Is More Than Just Paying Attention
How continuous awareness can be a catalyst for radical personal freedom and transformation.
How continuous awareness can be a catalyst for radical personal freedom and transformation.
Danusha Lameris’ poem Stone invokes the turning towards a way of being, a focused, cherishing attending.
BY DICK VERSTEGEN
Being halfway is not discouraging, but liberating. It is the resting place of constant alertness.
The Roman Emperor and philosopher on mortality, change, nature and the importance of paying attention to the small and beautiful details.
Observant and curious, poet Jasmine Marshall Armstrong draws inspiration and lessons from birds in her poem “Yellow-Headed Blackbirds”.
Both revelatory and mysterious, Lindsay Rockwell’s “Watching the Light Shift” shows us the path without giving us the answers.
Philokalia means ‘love of the beautiful and the good’, and the writings that were added to this collection were mostly concerned with the importance of awakening and developing attention and consciousness.
When we are looking, says Anne Lamott, really actively observing, then we are overriding our tendency towards interpreting and distorting the objects of our perception.
Alexandra Horowitz asks, what does it really mean to pay attention? Is it beneficial? And how can we be better at it?
Like the all-encompassing color field paintings of Mark Rothko mentioned in Kit Evans’ poem, this little piece commands our attention, while also leaving things unsaid.