So there is, for most of us, a profound disharmony between what we think of God, the powerful image of God that operates in our minds, and the actual experience of God which we may have had as children, which we may even have now. What we learn in meditation is to let go of all the images of God which have formed in us over the years. And in letting go of all the images, all the imagining, all the concepts of God that have formed in us, we recover the child’s capacity to experience God fully, the child whose experience is not controlled by its concepts. That is why Jesus says that in order to enter the kingdom, which is the direct experience of God, we must become like a little child.
(Aspects of Love 2 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
