“Meditation is a silent way of looking at resistance. You're not running away from it -- you're sitting with the resistance ... basically you're trying to follow the resistance. And I think that's very interesting.” ThinkingWayTryingRunningInterestingMeditationSittingSilentResistanceRunning AwayVery Interesting Author:Rodney Yee
“I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the whole time, and so on. This was an interesting experience, which has had some beneficial effects for me.” WholeHoursInterestingSilenceMeditationEffectsHundredNobleRetreatObservingBeneficialMeditating Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“Any really good scientist is as much an artist as a scientist. All the interesting stuff is found on the edge between knowing and not knowing. I know that sounds like a meditation teacher speaking, but when you're in the laboratory, or you're theorizing about physics, you need to know what you know, but if you can't get out from under that, you won't be able to make that insightful, first-time connection that nobody else has seen before.” ArtistInterestingTeacherMeditationScientistPhysicsInsightfulLaboratory Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn
“I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.” WritingMindBelieveWellsFormReadingFoundI BelieveInterestingMeditationMiracleMost InterestingReading And Writing Book:Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.” SeemsBeautifulWaitingInterestingMeditationModernPersonalityCatastrophe Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara