“We have a body. The question is, how will it open us to God in prayer? It is a springboard. All the practices of the spiritual life – praying with the scriptures, meditating, saying the rosary, journaling, focusing, spiritual reading – are only worth the time if they bring us to communicate heart-to-heart with God, if they coax forth from us a heartfelt response to what has been given.”
-Thomas Ryan, Reclaiming the Body in Christian Spirituality, p. 52
