“You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free”

In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds.

Meditation is devotional; study is analytical.

The mind is renewed by applying it to those things that will transform it.

Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind.

To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives.

The first is repetition. Repetition regularly channels the mind in a specific direction, thus ingraining habits of thought.

Another form of meditation is what the contemplatives of the Middle Ages called “re-collection,” and what the Quakers have often called “centering down.”

We simply do not know how to go about exploring the inward life.