An accumulative effect

This is how I understand meditation: in paying attention to the mantra as we say it, however many times we fail, however many times we fall off and get distracted, we are nevertheless doing the work that has an accumulative effect. And it works in the simplest possible way, by cutting through the jungle, the labyrinth, the undergrowth of our years and years of accumulated memories, plans, desires, images. It is the simplest therapy of all in that sense.

Grace at Work by Laurence Freeman OSB