You are not going to be perfect

Start to meditate yourself. You have just begun; you don’t have to be perfect. You are not going to be perfect, so give up any idea of perfection. But we can be faithful. There’s a saying from an old rabbi: “God does not expect us to be perfect, but we are not allowed to give up.” You are not going to be perfect, but we can be faithful. Just begin and share this with your people, with your communities, with the people in your parish. And if you start a little group in your parish in a couple of weeks’ time, you would find that there will be a few people who will come and join you, once a week. It doesn’t matter if there is one person who comes. You may get a hundred people the first week and two people the next week.

Meditating as a Christian by Laurence Freeman OSB