Daily Wisdom - 13/08

Aug 12th, 2015

Photo Laurence Freeman/Trosley, France

In the practice of meditation therefore we are not bringing our petitions or our intentions into the prayer. God knows our needs even before we ask. But we are paying attention. Not making intentions, but giving attention. This is the pure "seeing" of meditation or contemplative prayer. It is the vision of God, the seeing of God.

So we do not entertain particular ideas or images or theories of God in our mind. We are not speaking to God, we are not thinking about our problems, but we are doing something much greater.

(Laurence Freeman, Meditatio Talks 2005A)

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