Removing the Clouds

Chögyam Trungpa, Edited by Judith Lief - Nobody's World, Shambhala Publications 2008

There’s a sharp precision that exists in our life, which generally arises from some form of training or discipline, the sitting practice of meditation in particular. It’s not that meditation sharpens our perceptions, but that sitting practice makes it possible to perceive. It’s a question of removing the clouds, rather than recreating the sun. pg 107

Inner Journey

Thomas Merton The Wisdom of the Desert, New York, New Directions, 1960

What good will it do us to know merely that such things were once said? The important thing is that they were lived. That they flow from an experience of the deeper levels of life. That they represent a discovery of man, at the term of an inner and spiritual journey that is far more crucial and infinitely more important than any journey to the moon. pg 11