I went to a yoga retreat for one week in Yelapa, a small village in Mexico, accessible only by boat from Puerto Vallarta. There are no roads in Yelapa and thus, no large hotels, no nightclubs, no casinos. Cell phone signals are weak. The place I stayed during the retreat had no Internet access. We [...]
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Something has shifted
Posted: 3 March 2011 in Solitude, Silence, Serenity, StillnessTags: Religion and Spirituality, yoga
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What do we lose when we cannot be alone?
Posted: 17 February 2011 in Solitude, Silence, Serenity, StillnessSherry Turkle’s new book, Alone Together, examines how friending, texting and tweeting are diminishing our capacity to be alone and to experience solitude. Andrew Keen has reviewed the book: Turkle talks to high school students who are sending 6,000 text messages a day, thereby predicating their whole identity on electronic communications. “If Facebook were deleted, [...]
Focus on what you have, not what you don’t have
Posted: 30 June 2010 in Solitude, Silence, Serenity, StillnessTags: meditation
Picasso painted because he couldn’t sing. Maria Callas sang because she couldn’t write. Hemingway wrote because he couldn’t paint. Focus on the talent that you have and develop it to the fullest. Waste no time wishing for other talents. * * * * * * * * * Art is a lie that makes us realize [...]
New Year's Resolution: Simplicity
Posted: 2 January 2010 in Solitude, Silence, Serenity, StillnessTags: meditation
While others are making lists of New Year’s resolutions, I have only one: simplicity. I used to make lists of resolutions. It seemed comforting and the thing to do. But lists of resolutions have become nothing more than yet another to-do list in a world of too many things to do. What’s needed isn’t another [...]
Norman Fischer on the spirituality of art
Posted: 8 November 2009 in Solitude, Silence, Serenity, StillnessFrom The Spirituality of Art: Imagination draws its energy from a confrontation with desire. It feeds off desire, transmuting and magnifying reality through desire’s power. Fantasy does the opposite; it avoids desire by fleeing into a crude sort of wish-fulfillment that seems much safer. Fantasy might be teddy bears, lollipops, sexual delights, or superhero adventures; [...]
