This wisdom from John Main OSB is offered to a gathering of monks at Gethsemani Abby. When he says ‘all of us’ it is addressed to those who have dedicated themselves to the contemplative life. That being said, ’all of us’, it seems to me, applies to anyone who is thirsting for a deeper life in God:
”But at the centre of our being I think all of us know the truth of what Jesus means when he invites us to lose our lives so that we may find them. At this same centre we, all of us, feel the need for a radical simplicity, a moving beyond all our activities to the unitary principle of activity itself: the cause and end of movement. In other words, we all know the need we have to rejoice in our being at its simplest, where it simply exists with no reason for its existence other than that it gives glory to God who created it, who loves it, and who sustains it in being. And it is in prayer that we experience the sheer joy that there is in simple being”.
- John Main OSB