Centering prayer awakens our innermost point of being—our true self, which wants to love and create.
Phileena Heuertz teaches that “contemplative prayer practice is a commitment to loving our self so we can love others well.”
I sit in silence to love God and to let God love me.
I sit in silence because I love myself.
If I cannot love myself, I will not be able to love others.
If I cannot accept the love of God, I will not be able to love others.
When I say I love myself, I do not mean, however, that I am full of myself.
I mean that I am a precious child of God.
I love because God first loved me (1 John 4:19).
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MEISTER ECKHART’S LIVING WISDOM: Indestructible Joy and the Path of Letting God
James Finley
An immersion into the revelations of the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart.
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