What would it be like to live an intentional life? I suppose a person would have to be able to recognize intention to begin with. A working definition might help; some characteristics of what intention infused within the daily routines of getting on with daily routines could at least point out whether a person was hitting or missing the mark.
What would it take to live even one hour within intentionality? Without having thoughts drift away, chasing one another down one rabbit trail after another? The notions of 'schooled', 'practiced', and 'disciplined' are first to come to mind, but these characteristics lack the spontaneity that I imagine true intention requires.
The harnessing of thoughts I do not consider to be characteristic of the kind of intention I imagine to be worth practicing. There's an idea of awareness that seems to approach the right definition, or at least points in the right direction. In other words, not a controlling or restraining of thoughts, but rather a consciousness of thoughts, perhaps a supervision of thought that otherwise isn't there.
Perhaps my first characteristic of an intentional life is one within which thoughts are supervised and monitored with care and compassion.
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