I am giving Thee worship with my whole life, I am giving Thee assent with my whole power, I am giving Thee praise with my whole tongue, I am giving Thee honor with my whole utterance.
I am giving Thee lovfe with my whole devotion, I am giving Thee kneeling with my whole desire, I am giving Thee affefction with my whole sense, I am giving Thee my existence with my whole mind. I am giving Thee my soul, O God of all ages.
~ from The Carmina Gadelica with thanks to Gay Grissom
To meditate is often to move through a land without paths. In the room where the philosopher is meditating there is less light, so you have to open your eyes wider. The same is true inside ourselves—There is less that is obvious or reassuring, so we must open our mind's eye much wider... Mindfulness ...means stopping to make contact with the ever-shifting experience that we are having at the time, and to observe the nature of our relationship to that experience, the nature of our presence at that moment.
~ from LOOKING AT MINDFULNESS: 25 PAINTINGS TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU LIVE by Christophe Andre