Being at home with ourselves

Home, in the deepest sense of the word, is where we are at one with others, where we feel most ourselves, where we can be ourselves, where we know others and where we are known, where we are accepted and are accepting. I think that is really the whole meaning of meditation, it is the whole meaning of the Kingdom of God. It is the whole meaning of our life: to come home, to know really hat we are already at home, to be at home with ourselves. You know how often and how deeply Father John spoke about meditation as the way in which we are first of all restored to ourselves, come back into touch with ourselves, so that we can move out beyond our narrow limitations to others and to God.

( Aspects of Love 1, by Laurence Freeman )