I want to talk about a form [of prayer] which, because it is intimately bound up with the whole monastic search for God, ought to be specially treasured: the prayer of quiet. What matters is that we acquire the capacity to be silent in the presence of God: that we cultivate a silent awareness in which the soul meets God deep within itself. A starting point is an awareness of our limitations as creatures, of the self beyond which lies the nothing where we encounter God. This awakes a sense of dependence, enables us peacefully to commend ourselves to God’s providence and see in the activity of daily life his guiding hand.
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