A Meditation on Meditation

These are thoughts about the Lord's Prayer that came out as I sat alone at the breakfast table one day. I've edited out the longer pauses and stumbles.

The thing I enjoy and admire about Rudolf Steiner's writings is that he doesn't give you facts or doctrines to memorize, but simply points toward things you can look into for yourself. Usually they are hard, obscure, or even bizarre, but it is never about adopting his view. It is about the act, the effort, of applying your own attention to spiritual matters that is valuable. To think, to feel, more deeply--to break out of automatic, dogmatic, passive, or careless ways of believing--that's how we start to open the door. (I hope.)