The gift of sharing meditation as part of our Christian tradition of prayer, is that it allows these other forms of prayer to become healthy exercises. But I think it is important that we remember, in the church and in all religions because this is something that affects all religions, that we remember that at the heart of our spiritual life there needs to be this experience of pure attention, pure prayer, of contemplation. Even though at first, we may feel as if we are failing, we are not doing very well at it, we have to do it and we need to support each other in that learning process.
( Attention and Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
