If we want to flourish, to be fully alive, to discover what happiness really means, what Jesus calls ‘save our lives’ then, he tells us, we need to lose it. We need to see the positive meaning of ‘losing’, letting go. He tells us that we must lose or let go of ourselves, our lives, for his sake, which means keeping our attention in him, on him. It doesn’t mean continually thinking about him. Think of the people you love in your life; you aren’t necessarily thinking about them all the time, though there will be times when you think about them, when you are missing them, or when you are concerned for their well-being. But thinking about them is not the same as keeping your attention on them;
( Finding Oneself 1 Laurence Freeman )
