“When you were narrating the meditation, did you find joy and peace as you prayed it?” Roumie asked.
Neeson replied, “Prayer itself, the more you repeat it, the kind of deeper you go into it and the more profound the message is…It focuses you.”
Regarding what he hopes people will get out of the challenge, Neeson said, “My hope would just be that the people who join us find a little more hope and peace in their lives.” He said a theme of the challenge is “the importance of regaining a sense of wonder” and being “a bit more childlike.”
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When Roumie asked Neeson what one of his favorite passages was from the project, Neeson referenced a quote from Lewis’ “The Four Loves,” which says:
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
“I don’t know,” said Neeson, “I just thought that this point that your hearts were meant to love and be vulnerable, that it spoke very powerfully to me.”
