“I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.” GodFormJoyPrayerSecretAttentionPracticeTeacherParticularConversationSilentTechniqueDevotionOverwhelmingAbandonedHabitualConversations With God Author:Brother Lawrence
“The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven.” HeavenPrayerSecretOfficeGardenDevotionTemplesPettyRefreshingRams Author:Jeremy Taylor
“Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.” MenHumansStillsMomentsHandsLightWould BeRoomsSecretDarknessClearWonderfulWallComfortHarmonyPhilosophicalDevotionCuriousFlamesVisibleTemplesSensationsDisplayGlimpsePatchesPillars Book:The Island of Doctor Moreau Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau