“An embrace of simplicity offers another potent and liberating opportunity. It allows you to reduce the number of commitments, material possessions, and unsupportive relationships we burden ourselves with. These tend to clutter the mind and weigh you down.””
“I suggested, further, that the following might be sculpted: a large box filled with sixty moonshine jugs--piled high, toppling over, corks popping, liquor flowing. Disorder to match the clutter and chaos of our marvelous language. Words upon words, piled high, toppling over, thoughts popping, correspondence and conversation overflowing.””
“Pilots hated to stay on Guard and clutter up the air. The Navy called it Air Force common, the Air Force called it Navy common, and the Marines said they'd use any damn frequency they wanted, Guard included.””
“As I grow in my prayer life, my soul becomes a delightfully cluttered attic, filled with random graces that do not all fit together in some perfectly ordered system. The purpose of some graces will be immediately apparent in my life, but the meaning of others might evade me for a while. I must resist the temptation to clean up the messiness of my graces and must not try to come up with immediate answers for the questions that arise from them.””
“Let the thoughts emerge spontaneously in your mind. Think about the thoughts, examine the thoughts and slowly build on these thoughts. This is the time when your subconscious is interacting with your conscious thoughts. Your subconscious is feeding your thoughts, and simultaneously it is fed by the thoughts. In this state, you are neither fully conscious nor asleep. You are not dreaming because you are aware of your thoughts. Creative visualization should last about ten minutes daily. Develop a routine in which your meditation practice is followed by creative visualization. Do not expect instant results. The combined practice will slowly dissolve the clutter in your mind, and slowly you will discover the positive effects. You can't dig through the clutter in a hurry. There is no shortcut, but the process which has been described here will certainly direct your life to spectacular success.””
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“Because the examen helps me understand my spiritual and emotional rhythms, it helps me live with greater focus and effectiveness. I can see the clutter to remove it. I distinguish the habitual from the purposeful, mere busyness from real productiveness. I separate actions that are fruitful from those that are fruitless, ways of thinking that are self-generating from those that are self-defeating, relationships that are life-giving from those that are life-sucking. And then I rearrange or rebuild the 'workshop' so that I operate out of strength and joy. It doesn't mean I avoid hard things or difficult people. It means I'm more likely to deal with such things and such people from a place of wisdom, grace, clarity, and peace.””
“remembering what I had forgotten; of rediscovering what had been submerged under mental clutter.””
“If we think we can turn ourselves into the perfect Christian, we have missed the point of the entire Gospel, and will be making the Christ within us harder to see, not easier. We will be adding more layers and more clutter that one day will simply have to be removed””