Everyday Canvas

Meditation and Reading

Prompt: What does meditation mean to you and how do you meditate?

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About 35 years ago, I seriously studied meditation. Then, it became second nature. As the result of it, I am a much calmer person.

I rarely meditate now, at least not consciously. The good thing about meditation is it becomes second nature and you find yourself meditating on a specific thing or idea, as well as what you trained for.

Prompt: “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you,” says Carlos Ruiz Zafón, in The Shadow of the Wind
What do you think he means? Don’t we see in a book what its writer has written?

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I am not sure what Zafón claims is true for everyone. I certainly want to find out what the author is trying to say and why and on which thing inside of him he is basing it.

On the other hand, it is a fact that I like a book better if those things, ideas, and/or the writing style of the author correspond to my sensitivities. If this same feeling wouldn’t apply to every reader, then, we would have only one genre, one style, and more or less the similar storylines in books.