Play it by ear.

"God alone is noun; all created things are adjectives."

The whole idea of mindfulness is that with diligent practice it slowly becomes heartfulness: it moves from head, through the portal of the heart, and into the gut, which apparently has more nerve endings than the brain, and which, traditionally, in all cultures, is the seat of sympathetic feeling and intuition. With practice, in time, the work moves from mere attentiveness to love.

Mind is selfed; heart is peopled. Feel it. See it. Admit it.

Not so much what's done as the mind what does it.

"Solitude is the place of the great struggle and the great encounter – the struggle against the compulsions of the false self, and the encounter with the loving God who offers himself as the substance of the new self."

Bourgeois living: where reasoned unfaithfulness and comfortable self-centredness veil despair.

Things are looking up.

If I look within myself
I cannot bear myself.

If I do not look within myself
I do not know myself.

Everyone wants transformation yet no one is willing to change.

useless thoughts spoil all

"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us.'"

When the mind wanders, bring it back. When it wanders again, bring it back again.

solitude is the furnace in which transformation takes place

"Do not model yourselves on the behaviour of the world around you, but let your behav­iour change, modelled by your new mind."

How to approach something both beyond experience and beyond comprehension? Graciously.