A reflection on the inner stillness that frees us from self-rejection and restores our capacity to love. Drawing on Jesus’ teaching of the Shema and contrasting the Western vision of wholeness with the Zen ideal of self-effacement, this meditation explores awareness as a natural state — a flight of the spirit in peace and light.
Meditation does not mean emptying the mind. It means clearing space to think — a discipline of clarity that the Western tradition saw as sacred reasoning, not blankness.