Teacher of contemplation

If you put the elements of Jesus’s teaching on prayer together, we have interiority, we have silence, we have equanimity, not worrying about things, laying aside our anxieties, we have single-pointedness, attention, and we have being in the present moment. Put those into a blender and what do you get? Contemplation. Jesus is a master, a teacher of contemplation before being a moralist, before being a rule-maker. He only has one rule which is to love one another. And he is a contemplative master of prayer, a spiritual teacher, speaking about the heart of the human condition. And the question we have always to ask ourselves: Are we as church following in his footsteps? To what degree are we reflecting that and teaching that?

(Sources of Wisdom by Laurence Freeman OSB )