First be, then you will be ready to do. But if you’ve lost this connection, this experience, this familiarity with being, which is not mechanistic, if you’ve lost this connection with being, your doing is going to be out of control. And then he says, in discovering this potential we also discover that the people we live with, the people we love, the people we work with, each of them and all of them have the same depth of spirit in them, the same capacity for opening to the mystery of their own being. So, to see ourselves in others and others in ourselves. Once we begin to sense this depth of being in ourselves, we then understand that each person we meet – the people we disagree with, people from different political parties, people of different races, traditions and beliefs, people we don’t like because we don’t like the colour of their eyes or we don’t like the shape of their face – everyone we meet is also this manifestation of an infinite depth of being.
( Enlightenment by Laurence Freeman OSB )
