from head to 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)
from Roger Housden
_For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics_