Prayer not meditation

Prayer is not meditation. As the Christian mystic author of The Cloud of Unknowing wrote: “For as long as the soul dwells in this mortal body, the clarity of our understanding in the contemplation of spiritual things, and especially of God, is always mixed up with some sort of imagination.” When this happens, he continued, our prayers and our contemplations can be be “tainted,” leading us “into great error.”

And one of the things that… Continue reading →