In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God.… — John Main Copy Share Image
“love reaches out to communicate, to share, to widen the realm of its own communion.” — John Main Copy Share Image
Meditation begins with a call that awakes us out of the coma of self-preoccupation. We are called, we are chosen. Meditation is our response… — John Main Copy Share Image
Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love. — John Main Copy Share Image
The important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not only a… — John Main Copy Share Image
The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The… — John Main Copy Share Image
“...Our challenge as Christians is not to try to convert people around us to our way of belief but to love them, to be… — John Main Copy Share Image
That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light. — John Main Copy Share Image
“The light which enlightens us bathes the whole of creation but it enters us through a narrow aperture” — John Main Copy Share Image
