The root of prayer is interior silence.

God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.

In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best of the human potential as it evolves, but participation in the divine life itself.

We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.