Mystic’s Prayer

“For the mystics, prayer is more than petitioning an all-powerful deity with their personal desires. It is a technique to come into communion with the Being of all beings. God is no-thing and so is beyond any particular image that the mind can create. Thoughts and images cannot reveal God, but rather conceal His naked presence. God is not understood with the intellect, but intuitively known when thoughts are absent. Mystical prayer is emptying the mind so that we may directly experience Consciousness itself; the nothingness that contains everything.”

Timothy Freke in The Wisdom of the Christian Mystics

“Every concept grasped by the mind becomes an obstacle in the quest to those who search.”

Gregory of Nyssa

“The blessed divine light will illuminate the heart to the degree that pure Consciousness is purged of all concepts and ideas.”

St. Hesychios the Priest

“Be still and know. Remain in a state of spiritual wakefulness, with your mind and senses open, to hear what God wills in every moment.”

Abbot Vasilios

“Love embraces everything without reservation.. to experience love is to die to oneself and to live in God…the mystics..fall in love with love, and in this loving all separation is transcended. Lover and beloved dissolve into each other and only Love remains.”

Timothy Freke in The Wisdom of the Christian Mystics

“Blessed is the person whose desire for God has become like the lover’s passion for the beloved.”

John Climacus

“My mercy is incomparably greater than all the sins you could commit.”

God speaking to Catherine of Sienna