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Day-dreaming

Dear one and all,

It was lovely to see a few of you on Sunday. I’m sorry it was so brief! I had a great weekend in the UK. I don’t know why I’m writing this as a letter but here we go! Anyway I haven’t shared anything on here in a while.
I’d really be interested to hear some of your thoughts on day-dreaming. I was talking about meditation and prayer this weekend and someone quoted to me Simone Weil. She apparently said “Day-dreaming is the root of all evil” and she also said “It’s the sole consolation of the afflicted.”
Personally, I really think it’s important to realise that our desires/needs are never fully met and doing so allows us to get on with things and really be present to those around us. Perhaps that’s why the John Main “Maranatha” meditation is helpful as in it we are letting go of our thoughts and desires. But I seem to find myself day-dreaming an awful lot these days, particularly being far from friends. Perhaps it’s not a good thing, I’m not sure it’s the root of all evil though.. Sometimes I even have good ideas while daydreaming. Is there a distinction between being creative/imaginative and day-dreaming.
Discuss.
I miss you all, a la prochaine,
Love,
Jonny

POSTED 26.01.10 BY: admin | Comments (3)

3 Responses to “Day-dreaming”

  1. On January 26th, 2010 at 9:37 pm David Harris said:

    I wish i would give myself more time to daydream. I often have some of my best thoughts when i give myself time to do this. I think there is a strong correlation between daydreaming and creativity. I often find meditating difficult for periods longer than ten minutes. When i say difficult, what i usually do is begin to daydream, or process, past and potential circumstances, ideas, thoughts feelings etc. Nice to see you at the weekend Jonny. Hope you had a nice time in Bristol.X

  2. On January 27th, 2010 at 11:42 am carey said:

    Don't know quite how this relates to your question, but I have never daydreamed as much as I did when I was pregnant for the first time – and I think it was a necessary part of preparing for the changes to come.But I also think you can waste a lot of time daydreamig about stuff that you don't have any intention or means of trying to make happen

  3. On January 30th, 2010 at 10:04 pm Nicolas said:

    Hi Jonny,I find day-dreaming crucial to my sense of where I am and where I am going. At the same time, I think bringing discipline to it is important.Meditation is one of ways to do it withing a given frame, but I find that writing down my thoughts, either in my journal or even in this blog, helps me shape them into something more cohesive. Better still, it allows me to be critical and question some of the thoughts once I've written them.Self-discipline is key – not so much by repressing day dreaming but by giving it a shape and a purpose.