Jamie Kreiner > Quotes

“The Wandering Mind tracks their approaches from the outside in. It starts with monks’ decisions to concentrate on God and follows them into the successive layers of their ideas and practices, moving from the world they abandoned to the communities they joined, the bodies they trained, the books they read, the meditational memories they constructed, the metacognitive monitoring they set up inside their minds, and, finally, the fleeting moments of pure attention that some of them managed to capture.”
― Jamie Kreiner, The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction