mindfulness
David Steindlin Rast quoted by Vincent Ross, Parabola, August 1983
"To be human means to be contemplative at heart."
"The only alternative to the ‘listening wisdom’ of obedience is absurdity from Absurdus, which literally means to be utterly deaf. ‘If I call a situation absurd I admit I am deaf to its meaning.’ Obedience then, is ‘the daily discipline of listening and responding to meaning.’ “
"To be human means to be contemplative at heart."
"The only alternative to the ‘listening wisdom’ of obedience is absurdity from Absurdus, which literally means to be utterly deaf. ‘If I call a situation absurd I admit I am deaf to its meaning.’ Obedience then, is ‘the daily discipline of listening and responding to meaning.’ “