The ego of course wants to be exclusively loved – ‘I want you to love me more than anybody else’. This happens with children – sibling rivalry. The ego wants to possess it all for itself. And slowly we learn that’s not life, that’s not real. God does not love us exclusively, but he loves us uniquely. And as we know what that means, as we experience that, as we come to self-knowledge, that’s what holiness is. Nothing very difficult or eso-teric about that. It’s not about knowing a lot of difficult things. It’s amazing how ignorance and stupidity can coexist with a vast amount of knowledge and learning and cleverness.
Actually we have to be quite simple to know this. That’s why Jesus once cried aloud to the Father:
I thank you Father for hiding these things from the learned and the clever, and revealing them to mere children. (Lk 10:21, Mt 11:25)
( Christian Life in the Light of Christian Meditation 2, Laurence Freeman )
