“The contemplative life is more than Christian prayers or rituals or sermons. It is all of those things but more. It is about the experience of God on the individual level. It is the fullness of the Tradition come to life again in us as the personal sensibility of what it is to realize that it is in the womb of God that we live and breathe and have our being.”
–Joan Chittister, The Monastic Heart, p. 195
