From the head into the heart...

"You must descend from your head into your heart.

At present your thoughts of God are in your head. And God Himself is, as it were, outside you, and so your prayer and other spiritual exercises remain exterior.

Whilst you are still in your head, thoughts will not easily be subdued but will always be whirling about, like snow in winter or clouds of mosquitoes in summer."



Theophan the Recluse (1815 - 1894)
in Roger Housden
For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics