Real simplicity

With true conversion, and this is why contemplation has an enormous impact upon our way of seeing society and our responsibilities in society and to other people within society, true conversion moves us from this false simplicity to a real simplicity. And real simplicity is this experience of undivided consciousness that is the experience of non-duality, seeing ourselves in others, and others in ourselves. And when we are centred in that perception, we cannot act with the cruelty or the inhumanity or the wall-building exclusivity of Saul, or of many other parts of the world today and throughout history. We can’t do that because it would just be impossible for us to do one thing and see another. So we need this contemplative consciousness in order to create a more just a more humane, more peaceful society.

The Art of Waiting, Laurence Freeman