This is the challenge of meditation for people in our culture; it seems as if meditation is just one more thing we’ve got to do. We may like to do it, think we like to do it, but we don’t have time for it. But actually when we do make the time for it and meditate, we discover that our whole sense of time and the meaning of our experience in daily life changes. We begin to see everything in a new light. It’s quite surprising and unexpected how the time we give to silence, stillness and simplicity changes the way we live here and now, and not only in terms of improving our blood pressure or our panic attacks or our anxiety levels or sleep patterns. We may meditate just for these reasons at first, but it isn’t long before we discover that the time we’re giving to meditation is having a profound and pervasive influence on every aspect of our life, including the most important aspects of our life, which are those we cannot measure.
( Finding Oneself 1 Laurence Freeman )
