How do we love ourselves? We love ourselves by becoming still. Stillness is a great discipline; it’s the great discovery of meditation. Stillness is the dynamic of transcendence. The more still we are, the more we transcend our limitations. Now stillness does not mean stopping. It is not static. We can understand what stillness is when we see it as part of the whole process of growth in nature. There’s a very important relationship between stillness and growth. Stillness is not incompatible with action. One of the things we begin to feel, as we meditate regularly, is that those times of meditation, morning and evening, open up a new centre of awareness, a new stillness of consciousness, of perception, deep within us, which is not affected by anything we do, however busy we may be, however rushed off our feet we may be, however involved in external activity we may be.
(Aspects of Love 2 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
