As we learn to be poor in meditation, as we learn what the mantra has to teach us, we accept our mortality, we accept death and dying as part of our growth, and we learn to practise nonattachment, non-possessiveness, non-acquisitiveness in all our dealings with each other. We fear poverty, but we learn somehow that it is poverty that leads us to the joy of the kingdom, the joy of letting go. In poverty, we possess only what is necessary, nothing more, nothing less.
(Aspects of Love 2 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
