A new view of life

I met a woman who had lived in New York for much of her life and had been meditating for about eighteen months. She said that, about eighteen months ago, she left New
York because she found it was just too much to endure. She felt too isolated, too lonely, too alienated and the pressure of life was too great, and so on. She moved a little bit out of the city, and her life became very complex for a number of reasons. But, she said, as she started to meditate, and she would come back to the city and have to work in the city, she suddenly began to see everything around her differently. All the same relationships, all the same routines that she had been doing before now took on a completely different meaning. And, she said, as the months went by, she began to discover a new view of life. A new horizon of life began to appear for her, a new meaning. The feeling of alienation and isolation just began to crumble, it began to dissolve.

( Aspects of Love 1, by Laurence Freeman )