My experiences, thoughts and their expression: mi vida

...neat book! Reading this morning, came across this writing, which is very helpful, as one thinks of prayer in silence, as one thinks of meditation: what is it and how does one do it, after all is said and done? This came to the 'rescue' just in time! Allow me to share these two paragraphs from Finley's book, "Christian Meditation", pp. 123-4. Enjoy! "This  is the approach to meditation that I am encouraging you to try as well. Sitting still in meditation, learn to settle into the ungraspable immediacy of your bodily stillness. Sitting still and straight, settle into a deep meditative awareness of each life-sustaining breath. Learn to listen so deeply to your breathing that your very consciousness begins to take on the primordial, life-sustaining  texture of your breathing. If you are tired as you meditate, learn to settle into a deep, reverential attentiveness to your bodily fatigue. If you are rested as you meditate, learn to listen and become one with...

Thomas Merton in Calcutta, in a "Spiritual Summit Conference" prayed: Oh God, we are one with You. You have made us one with You. You have taught us that if we are open to one another, You dwell in us. Help us to preserve this openness and to fight for it with all our hearts. Help us to realize that there can be no understanding where there is mutual rejection. Oh God, in accepting one another wholeheartedly, fully, completely, we accept You, and we thank You, and we adore You, and we love you with our whole being, because our being is in Your being, and our spirit is rooted in Your spirit. Fill us then with love, and let us be bound together with love as we go our diverse ways, united in this one spirit which makes You present in the world, and which makes You witness to the ultimate reality that is love. Love has overcome. Love is victorious. Amen. Oh God, help me hear these words. Amen.