The dynamic of love

Love is the great healing power of our life, and it is the deepest meaning of all our experience. It gets also more and more clear for us, as we follow the way of meditation, that meditation itself is a way of love, nothing more and nothing less than a way of love. I would like to reflect with you, in the light of Father John’s teaching and in the light of our own experience of meditation over the years, just how richly we can be guided on the path of meditation by understanding this dynamic of love: love of self, love of others, and love of God. When we meditate, we come into an experience of being at home in which we can, perhaps for the first time, really feel that we are at ease with ourselves, at home with ourselves, at one with ourselves.

( Aspects of Love 1, by Laurence Freeman )