In the stillness comes knowledge: “Be still and know that I am God.” And in that knowledge, we come not only to know God of course, but to know ourselves. The stillness of meditation, which is the discipline we practise day by day, is the stillness in which we stop doing, we stop thinking, we stop judging, we stop planning, we stop analysing. In that stillness, as we learn to be still, a knowledge arises, a knowledge of the Spirit arises, and it is in that knowledge that we find our way forward. In that stillness we discover that we can experience life free from all conceptual reference. In other words, we don’t have to think about life in order to live.
(Aspects of Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
