What I aim at is to live within a situation and to be totally engrossed in it, and yet free from involvement. The basic thing is that I never ask myself what the result of any action will be -- that is God's concern. The only question I keep asking myself in life is: what should I do at this particular moment? What should I say? All you can do is to be at every single moment as true as you can with all the power of your being -- and then leave God to use you, even despite yourself.
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, School for Prayer. Daybreak, London, 1989, p xvi.
Wonderful. I so love this. I have just been reading a paper in which the author talks about a state of "passionate detachment" as being something to aim for in each moment - a kind of 'noli me tangere' to apply to all moments. I think this paradox is inherent in what you say here.
ReplyDeleteExactly! "Passionate detachment", or a detached passion :) describe it very well. No action can be really efficient, no action actually hits its target unless it is fully rooted in the present moment, in the "here and now" which is also eternity. That's what it is about, I think.
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