“Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.” MindStillsProcessAbilityMeditationBuddhismActivityMindfulnessReflectionMidstStillness Author:Frederick Lenz
“Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and "inaudible" connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.” WayArtProcessActivityReflectionArt IsConnectionsEssenceNotesMusicalPatternsSurfaceConcentrationContrastMundaneCommentaryAffinityMusical Notes Author:Russell Sherman
“Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.” MadeOne DayActivityReflectionRangeFaithfulOur TimeHistorianAdsArchaeologists Author:Marshall McLuhan
“It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.” PeopleLifeImportantDifferentSoulValuesAnimalQualityCreativeActivityConversationEqualReflectionConcernRhythmProductiveProgressiveHeroicEfficientAmbitiousNurtureReverieCaptivatingDowntime Author:Thomas Moore
“Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.” SoulEndsSpiritFansMovementProductsActivityReflectionBladesSpinning Book:Mission to America: A Novel Source: Mission to America: A Novel
“This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.” ArtGoalMaterialsActivityEssentialsReflectionReception Author:Thomas Hirschhorn
“We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.” StillsActivityReflectionStandingPainterTake TimeReposeSurveys Book:The art of being human Source: The art of being human