Later on I was meditating, imagining Light and Love surrounding the world leaders as they gathered: ‘Free them from fear’, I asked … but then I couldn’t go on. I realised that all I could honestly ask was for myself to be freed from the fear which only an hour ago had threatened to ruin my day. All I could do was to come to terms with my own brokenness and make peace with myself and then with my immediate environment. And remembering the conflicts and problems in my life at that moment, even that seemed beyond me.

Susan Lawrence, 1984