23rd
In order to become myself I must cease to be what I always thought I wanted to be, and in order to find myself I must go out of myself, and in order to live I have to die.
The reason for this is that I am born in selfishness and therefore my natural efforts to make myself more real and more myself, make me less real and less myself, because they revolve around a lie - Thomas Merton
Discipline of attention is especially necessary in the community which has an overabundance of of media of communication.
Indiscriminate presence to all available channels of communication leads to over-communication.
A person unable to discipline his attention by means of a careful selection of communications conducive to his inner growth will soon be overwhelmed by an unrelated mass of images and information.
Sitting here watching V which I recorded sometime earlier this year. Not sure why I’m watching this. I lost interest in it earlier in the year. Yet, I keep seeing it as I scroll through the DVR and for some reason I cant bring myself to delete it _until_ I watch it. Odd.