“Meditation is the work that harmonizes the usually discordant dimensions of consciousness. It reconciles contradictions and opposites. All traditions agree that its fruits are preferable to their opposites. These fruits need little definition or defense: compassion and wisdom, generosity and tolerance, forgiveness and kindness, gentleness and peace, joy and creativity. By liberating these qualities, meditation advances human goodness and wholeness." From Laurence Freeman OSB. “Meditation,” in JESUS THE TEACHER WITHIN (London: Continuum, 20000, p. 197-98.
