Our human experience of love develops with our stages of growth. We have to grow up. We have to become adult if we are to realise our capacity for love, if we are to be the person that we are called to be. This process of growth and development is a journey. Life is a journey by which we pass through stages, and meditation is a journey. It helps us to understand that there are stages of development. That may help us to be patient – to find and to go with the flow rather than try to impose our own order, our own desire for growth or our own desire for love, upon a situation that isn’t yet ready for it. Understanding that life and our capacity for love unfold by stages teaches us patience, teaches us wisdom.
( Aspects of Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
