It is only when we start to meditate that we realise how potent our ego is. The moment we step off the treadmill to be still, it besieges us with questions like a querulous child to whom we need to say, as once in the past, ‘Be quiet and don’t speak until you are spoken to’! The inner stillness and discovery of our true self calls for vigilance, reminding us of the adage that no one, having put their hand to the plough and looking back, is worthy of the kingdom of heaven: heaven being not some place hereafter but within each one of us. It is only in that stillness that we shall hear the voice of God.
