What are the first questions that anybody asks when they start to meditate? How long does this take? How long will it be before I begin to see the benefits, the fruits, and I can be sure that I’m not wasting my time? How long does it take? This question is asked in the 14th-century book, The Cloud of Unknowing, one of the great short, beautiful texts on Christian meditation in this tradition: how long does it take? And he said it takes ‘an atom of time’. In other words, it really is in the blink of an eye, it takes no time at all, which is one way of expressing it. The other way of expressing it is, it is endless. We are continually on the journey.
( Breakthrough by Laurence Freeman OSB )
