Daily Wisdom 17/8

Aug 16th, 2015

Laurence Freeman, Trosly, France

... the work of silence becomes interior because then we all discover that the mind is not still. The mind is not quiet. The mind is running around in circles, it is agitated, it is full of fears, of desires, of fantasy, of memories and plans. The agitation, the turbulence, of the mind, according to the early Desert Fathers (the first Christian monks from whose teaching John Main recovered this tradition of meditation), the distractedness of the human mind, is the real meaning of original sin.

It is our incapacity to pay attention to God, in the present moment. What could be more simple than paying attention in the present moment?

Laurence Freeman, Meditatio Talks 2005A

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