A deeper experience

Meditation is universal. We find it as a universal wisdom in all the great families of humanity and for this reason, meditation offers us today a very wonderful opportunity for dialogue at a deep level, for reconciliation, for the healing of the wounds of division, whether it’s in politics or over race, or in economic divisions between rich and poor. In meditation, I think we can discover a common ground, a new depth of being human in the modern world with so many different forces at work, so many different divisions and so much conflict. God has given us meditation as a gift which we are learning to rediscover in the modern world because our need is so desperate, because we need this deeper experience of being human, this deeper experience of being one family. So, there’s a universal aspect to meditation.

Meditating as a Christian by Laurence Freeman OSB