God manifests whenever we pay attention. Simone Weil said that ‘God is attention without distraction’. God is attention without distraction. That is like saying God is love. Except in saying it this way, it reminds us of the process by which we become divinised, by learning to pay attention without distraction. So, in this condition of, of waiting we’re no longer asking, ‘How long is this going to take? When will the kingdom of God come?’ as some people asked Jesus. In fact, one of the ways that we know we’re making progress in meditation, is because we stop asking or thinking about that question altogether – when is something going to happen? Because in fact we know that it is happening. And it’s happening, not necessarily in the meditation only, but in our life as a whole, in the whole field of reality, the whole integrated field of reality, in which our life finds itself. Something is happening there, a change is happening. So the question – how long? when will the kingdom of God come? – all these questions of impatience, coming from the virtual mind rather than the enlightened mind, these questions quieten down.
(The Art of Waiting by Laurence Freeman OSB)
