So this gift of meditation is that it has to be accepted by the person to whom it is being offered. This means that in the same way, when we pay attention to someone, we give them our attention – this great act of generosity when you really pay attention to someone as a unique, individual manifestation of God – then what you hope will happen is that your gift of attention to them will stimulate a response from them, a reciprocation of that attention, that they will pay attention to you, to what you are saying, not just to you as a ego but to you, as a channel. And when that happens, God is born, the Word becomes flesh. And that is the glory of God manifesting in the fullness of human life.
( Attention and Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
