The whole of your life is transformed by it

That is what we mean by grace: unconditional free gift. We simply have to be open to it. This way of meditation I’m sharing with you is a way. I’m not saying it is the only way, but it is a way, a practice from the beginning of the life of the Church, to enable us to be open to this continuous prayer in daily life so the whole of your life is transformed by it. There is no pill that has yet been invented that can give us this experience. In the Western countries, mental illness is on the increase. Young people at university now in America go to see their counsellor or they go to see a doctor, they say they are feeling a bit unhappy, and the first thing the doctor does is give them a pill, an anti-depressant pill. We think in the modern world that we can solve these human problems just by medication or by some kind of economic solutions.

Meditating as a Christian by Laurence Freeman OSB