Jesus also tells us in that same Sermon on the Mount: ‘Don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.’ It’s an interesting teaching isn’t it? When you do something good, don’t even know it yourself. Don’t be saying to yourself, ‘Oh this is very good; I’m a very holy person; God must be very pleased with me, and I’m sure other people would be saying how good I am’. Don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. All of these point to the experience that we enter into in the prayer of the heart. True holiness is secret, it’s mysterious, it’s not self-conscious. Anyone who thinks they are holy of course are not holy.
( Christian Life in the Light of Christian Meditation 2, Laurence Freeman )
