There is a stage in meditation practice where strong attachment to hope and fear disappears completely. They are replaced by a sense of certainty in ourselves and also in the journey we are on. From that moment on, even when we encounter emergencies, moments of fear, terror, loneliness, or desperation, we will not completely lose our sense of inner serenity.
In The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Nicolas says he didn’t trust God less even with all his doubts, and from that point he felt better
