In the stillness of meditation we confront the ego in the form of our distractedness, of our wandering mind, but it also makes us aware of how distracted we are at other times, not only when we sit to meditate, but how we can be distracted in everything we do, never content to do one thing at a time. If poverty means that we possess only what is necessary, stillness means that we only do what is necessary. Stillness is only the necessary action or the necessary movement. That is why, when we meditate, we stop unnecessary thinking, It’s the unnecessary thinking which dominates us, which is uncontrolled, which leads to our phobias, to our insomnia, to our fantasies to our paranoia.
(Aspects of Love 2 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
