Conversion of Heart

“One of the most difficult things for Westerners to understand is that meditation is not about trying to make anything happen. But all of us are so tied into the mentality of techniques and production that we inevitably first think that we are trying to engineer an event, a happening. . . The first thing to understand, however, is that meditation has nothing to do with making anything happen. The basic aim of meditation is indeed quite the contrary, simply to learn to become fully aware of what is,  . . to learn directly from the reality that sustains us. [. . . .] So often we live our life at five percent of our full potential. But of course there is no measure to our potential. The Christian tradition tells us it is infinite. If only we will turn from self to other, our expansion of spirit becomes boundless. It is all-turning; what the New Testament calls conversion. We are invited to unlock the shackles, to be freed from being prisoners within our self-limiting egos.” — JOHN MAIN: ESSENTIAL WRITINGS