One of the great connections that meditation makes for us is a connection with a sense of our own death, of our own mortality. In this spirit of detachment and attention, meditation greatly transforms the quality of our life. Meditation is simply an acceptance and an entry into the mystery of dying. Dying is nothing less than letting go. All our life is really a lesson in learning to let go, and we learn to let go by stages, in different ways. All our life is a preparation for this ultimate letting go, the moment of death, in which we are meant to be ready, to be prepared. Anyone of you who has ever been with someone when they have died will know that that moment is a moment of tremendous significance. The whole of our life is focused in that moment.
(Aspects of Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
