the white room
vision 41
Welcome to our weekly practice!
This meditation is very special to me, as it is the first one that I shared with others; which ended up being the beginning of this strange little career I’ve carved out.
Here is the little talk -
Here is the meditation -
Enjoy!
Until next time,
Jess
No experience has been too unimportant,
and the smallest event unfolds like a fate,
and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread
is guided by an infinitely tender hand
and is laid alongside another thread
and is held and supported by a hundred others.
–Rainer Maria Rilke
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. “
-Herman Melville
“Just resolve to shine, constantly and steadily, like a warm lamp in the corner, and people will want to move towards you in order to feel happy, and to read things more clearly. You will be bright and constant in a world of dark and flux, and this will save you the anxiety of other, ultimately less satisfying things like ‘being cool’, ‘being more successful that everyone else’ and ‘being very thin’.”
– Caitlin Moran
"The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on. We make ourselves and in so doing are the gods of the small universe of self and the large world of repercussions."
- Rebecca Solnit
"The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out of all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world's weather."
- Frederick Buechner
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim Morrison
"Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Also I think meditation promotes a desirable digital consciousness whereas many of us are still at least partially stuck in analogue consciousness by dint of our upbringing or being overly attuned to the more old-era dinosaur attitudes of our society.
Analogue consciousness makes your mind like a huge dusty old book shelf where guests can peruse all the spines of the books to see how well read, traveled or experienced you are. All your knowledge is there. Digital consciousness is more like the cloud – you are serene and trust that the information, response, memory or idea you need is there for the “downloading” when you want it to be.”
– Mystic Medusa
"Between where you are now and where you'd like to be there's a sort of barrier, or a chasm, and sometimes it's a good idea to imagine that you're already at the other side of that chasm, so that you can start on the unknown side."
David Bohm
THE WORLD I LIVE IN
I have refused to live
locked in the orderly house of
reasons and proofs;
The world I live in and believe in
is wider than that. And anyway.
What's wrong with Maybe?
You wouldn't believe what once or
twice I have seen. I'll just
tell you this:
only if there are angels in your head will you
ever, possibly, see one.
- Mary Oliver