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They tell us that ‘God’ is not an idea contained in a form of words but a way of being towards others and towards Being itself. Reverent. Expectant. Wordless. Never controlling, because love and goodness cannot be compelled. We should do good for its own sake as if God did not exist.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
The contemplative mind prays from a different sense of Who–I–am. It rests, and abides in the Great I AM, and draws its life from the Larger Vine (John 15:4–5), the Deeper Well (John 4:10–14).
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
John of the Cross came to define deep prayer along similar lines. “Preserve a loving attentiveness to God with no desire to feel or understand any particular thing concerning God.”2 By means of this loving attentiveness one begins to move into God.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
Contemplation and Compassion: The Second Gaze
Acting on the basis of love is inherently nourishing.