Artist: Leon Wyczółkowski
The old saints used to refer to awareness of God as "recollection" and I've always loved that word. Probably the word in current use that comes closest to what was meant would be "mindfulness". An interest in remembering, a willingness to remember, is part of that mindfulness, I would assert:
Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
this one really resonates...
ReplyDeleteI'm glad, Roberta.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you remember Plato's words, "All learning is remembering." I can never remember whether it was Plato or Aristotle that said something so I googled it and found it on the following site which is, I think, pretty cool: http://www.mannymolecular.com/spiritual-life-philosophy/38-a-21st-century-guide-to-spirituality-what-is-spirituality-a-what-can-it-do-for-me
ReplyDeleteInteresting link, Tom. Thanks. I'm exploring it now.
ReplyDeleteLovely quote from Henry Ward Beecher.
ReplyDeleteLovely--window/icon!
ReplyDeleteA beautiful thought...so memorable...
ReplyDelete"go and sit in that window again".
I love it!
annie c