We know from meditation what a wonderful teacher stillness is, and we learn this renunciation and this new vision through learning to be still. Being who we are – it’s all we have to do – and seeing what is. There is a great awakening in this stillness. Sometimes, seeing who we are, being who we are, and seeing what is all around us, comes as a shock. Sometimes we resist it; our images of ourselves are so strong and our judgments of other people are so strong that we won’t let them go. We have created a view of the world usually with ourself in the position of judge and jury, and it’s very difficult for us to let go of that hold over the world and that vision of the world. There is a shock involved – a shock of conversion, a shock of liberation, in some way or other.
( Aspects of Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
