In these difficult times, here’s another way to look at things:
People ask, “In meditation necessary?” If you want to explore the innermost parts of your mind and ascertain who you really are, there is no more ideal method. Mere introspection is not deep enough, and psychological counseling will not necessarily bring you face to face with all parts of yourself. Only the depth and solitude of meditation can help you learn everything. Discovers are there. We need only enter the mind to find them, p 72.
Deng Ming-Dao, 365 Tao: Daily Meditations, Harper, San Francisco, 1992.
Another small book that lends me calm:
“Faith does not require a belief system, and is not necessarily connected to a deity or God, though it doesn’t deny one. This faith is not a commodity we either have or don’t have—it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience,” p xiv.
Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, Riverhead Books, 2002.
My apologies: Reading, Writing currently consumes most of my dwindling energy.
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