Everything Will Come to You
Monk Mindset for Living Well
Prayer and Meditation: Show Up and Receive the Light
Reflection on the Monk Mindset & Quote
During a layover while returning from a 30-day silent retreat in a hermitage nestled in the Colorado mountains, I stopped and stood still as hundreds of people swirled around me, rushing to their flights or snatching a meal. I closed my eyes and felt that if I totally trusted, everything in the universe would come to me, like a magnet drawing scraps of metal toward itself.
It’s hard to live continuously from this level of being and trust, but in that airport terminal, I saw into a deeper reality of receptive trust, of settling into an identity of authentically being. Being is more about receiving than it is about chasing or seeking something or someone.
Such receiving doesn't just happen on its own. Like any other area of growth and transformation, we must build intentional practices and routines to open channels within ourselves for receiving. In the monastery, the first thing we did each day, beginning at 6 AM, was pray and meditate for 1.5 hours. Starting the day with silence and prayer anchored everything for the rest of the day. Cultivating the ability to sit in silence orients our heart towards the still, subtle voice of truth, of God, of who we are called to be.
Put It Into Practice This Week
Tomorrow morning, before reaching for your phone, sit someplace quiet and pray or just take in the presence of God for 5 or 10 minutes. If you’re already doing this, stay just a few extra minutes. Ask that what you are searching for will come to you. Trust that it will.
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