A journey of continual change

The image of a journey or pilgrimage is a natural one to employ when we think about meditation or about the whole of life. It is a very apt image because reflection on experience reveals constant change and often unpredictable development within something that itself remains the same. The journey is a constant, but within the journey there is continual change. The real journey is the creation of the person we are. And the person we are becoming is unique but also in union with all others. Here is the mystery of creation — that everything within creation is both unique and united. None of us will ever, can ever, be repeated. Our oneness is an aspect of our Godlikeness and a reason why we must reverence each other, and our own selves, so deeply. Yet there also is the most extraordinary unity in the oneness between ourselves and the human family, and between humanity and all creation.

The Selfless Self by Laurence Freeman OSB