Mindfulness deepens our perception, so that we experience God’s word not just as commandments derived from ancient text, but as emanating from life itself, from the Torah of lived experience and from the constant invisible communication of the hidden presence of God within all people and all nature, the energy and vibrancy of creation as it sings to us and within us.
The aim of such mindfulness is not mindfulness alone, but so that we ‘remember and do’, so that we follow the dictates of this deeper reality with its constant call to integrity and service. This balance between reflection and action, being and doing, is central to Judaism. The purpose of prayer and meditation is not withdrawal from, but deeper entry into, the life of the world so that, at least in our best moments, we come closer to the unreachable ideal of being ‘holy to our God’.
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, from Listening for God in Torah and Creation
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