The essential human spiritual pilgrimage

This way of prayer, the prayer of the heart, what I call meditation, is something that we need to remember, we need to re-connect with it. We need to rediscover it because we weren’t taught it. It’s as simple as that. I wasn’t taught it as a child, but it’s there in our Catholic tradition. In meditation, we move from the head to the heart. That is the pilgrimage. If God has taken up his residence within each of us, the place – it is a spiritual place, not a physical place – the place where we find him is in our heart. That is the essential human spiritual pilgrimage: from the mind to the heart.

Meditating as a Christian by Laurence Freeman OSB