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In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... all good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to god.
-Thomas Merton
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In Meditative Prayer, One Thinks And Speaks

Thomas Merton
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... all good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to god.
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Prayer is first of all listening to god. it's openness. god is always speaking; he's always doing something. prayer is to enter into that activity... convert your thoughts into prayer. as we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. the difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue,... a conversation with god.
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Eden is a conversation. it is the conversation of the human with the divine. and it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. it is not a thing, eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. to live in eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. altogether we call this beauty.
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God is always present, always available. at whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is god who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. the prayer which is pronounced for god and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.
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