A few thoughts have begun to crystallize into something that's probably obvious but is still worth stating.

'What makes me who I am is not what I want but what I choose.'

Aside from that, I'm exploring a particular state of mind, or what I would call a place I've discovered (because I find metaphorical labels meaningful). In this place, my mind is quiet, but not silent, and I care enough to share what comes to me. Not everything is quick and simple or easy to find (what I look for doesn't always come to mind), so I see it as more of a forest than a path.

It's a good place to start, and I'd like to get used to it and figure out how to spend time here when I want to. That's sort of abstract, but it's basically just learning how to drop things that might be worrying me without entering a completely timeless and empty state. This is somewhere in between singular focus and being completely unfocused.