Contemplative Prayer

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"The contemplative experience originates from this totally new kind of awareness of the fact that we are most truly ourselves when we lose ourselves.  We become ourselves when we find ourselves in Christ. . . Contemplative prayer is a deep interior activity in the very roots of our being in response to God who has the initiative and yet draws us into certain very subtle forms of obedient initiative on our own side." 

Thomas Merton, Contemplation in a World of Action