We have to accept the inescapable suffering of our lives and follow Jesus, to take up our cross, as he says, each day, to not take our attention off him, which means to keep a space open in ourselves which is his space only – ‘Parking Space Reserved’ – space reserved for the one we are following. It is into that space that we enter most fully when we meditate, and we open up, expand that space where he can teach us. If we want to flourish, to be fully alive, which is what ‘happy’ really means, or to save our lives which is what it means as well I think, then we need to lose this life.
( Finding Oneself 1 Laurence Freeman )
