Transforming our desires

Meditation helps by taking us through our desires, a process of transforming our desires if you like, purifying our desires, transforming through a radical therapy – the radical therapy of purifying the imagination. And it’s radical as we take our attention off all our images. It’s not easy to do that because you will feel that you’re losing something. Now, in the meditation, you are losing, nobody likes to lose. The experience of loss is very painful and unpleasant. And yet, in meditation we choose to lose, and it’s the free choice to lose, or in the AA language ‘to let go’, because that’s what losing is. Voluntary losing is letting go. And that choice opens us to grace in abundance.

Grace at Work by Laurence Freeman OSB