“Absolute unmixed attention is prayer.” -Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
I realized a long time ago that I can trace the decline of my spiritual health, and a decline in the quality and quantity of my writing, to the date I got a television. For a good year and a half, writing was a form of prayer to me. In writing I set aside time to examine myself and my experience closely and to open myself up to learn.
Television kind of shuts that down for me. It is much like a drug in that way. Television makes me a little bit numb.
I think it’s time to turn the TV off; time to read more and time to write more.
Tags: 11th Step, Spirituality
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oooh – nice connection – i’m sure it does the same for me… have to think about that… i don’t watch a lot – and never watch during the day, except now that i can watch “tv” on my computer – so i’m filling time during the day catching up on mad men or other things that i would never do in front of the tv… sigh.
i think for me too that some people in my real life have been reading my blog, and it’s connected to my facebook profile – and my kids and all of their friends, who we work w/ in youth group are attached to my fb profile and i just don’t really want the parts of my life that i am moved to write about available to their innocent souls… sigh… i know that i can blog anonymously but unless i have something i can’t work out anywhere else i don’t use it…
i do miss your words, and look forward to benefiting from your tv-less choices.
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“things” do to you what you let them do to you. I know you can find balance in your life. I have faith in YOU.
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