Powerlessness is our greatest treasure. Don’t try to get rid of it. Everything in us wants to get rid if it. Grace is sufficient for you, but not something you can understand. To be in too big a hurry to get over our difficulties is a mistake because you don’t know how valuable they are from God’s perspective, for without them you might never be transformed as deeply and as thoroughly.
~ Thomas Keating in Contemplative Outreach News, Vol. 30, Number 2, June 2014
I saw Nuri sitting in meditation so motionless that not even one hair moved. I asked, "From whom did you learn such deep meditation?" "I learned it from a cat waiting by a mouse hole. The cat was much stiller than I.
