Meditation...

"If God is to speak His word to the soul,

it must be still and at peace.

And then He will speak His word and give Himself to the soul,

and not as a mere idea,

apart from Himself."




Meister Eckhart
_Sermons_, I
in Geoffrey Parrinder
_Collins Dictionary of Religious & Spiritual Quotations_
London: HarperCollins, 1990, p. 69