Becoming conscious of a meaning in our life

(…) if we are practising the contemplative work that allows this phenomenon of faith, this quality of faith to become stronger in us, it will produce a harvest, the fruits of the Spirit, which are manifestations of the life of God. And the manifestation of these fruits of the Spirit is a visible sign of the process of divinisation that is happening in us, has begun to happen here and now in this life. And when we become aware of that, and it will be with a sense of wonder and mystery, maybe uncertainty that we begin to see it at first, but when we begin to see it, we have become conscious of a meaning in our life. This is why meditation doesn’t only reduce symptoms that we would like to change like anxiety or stress or insomnia, or anger or addiction, but meditation more than that gives us the sense of meaning and connects us with the meaning of our life. And meaning is always to be found, not in thought, not in an explanation or an answer to a riddle or to a philosophical problem. Meaning is found, and we can live with meaning, when we have the experience of connection, a personal connection, to the truth, reality. 

 ( Breakthrough by Laurence Freeman OSB )