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abandon action and contemplation active apostolic ascetic Augustine Baker awareness Basil beams of love become Benedict Benedictine Bernard called canonical hours cenobitic Christ Christian Church conflict contemplative prayer dark night deep deepest Desert Father desire devoted devotio moderna divine dread efforts emptiness enter Evagrius Ponticus existential experience face fact faith Father fervor fire curtain Garcia de Cisneros gift God's grace Gregory Holy Spirit humility images imagination invisible Jakob Boehme Jesus John John Tauler kind knowledge light liturgical prayer liturgy lives Lord man's means meditation and contemplation mental prayer mercy mind monastery monastic prayer monastic tradition monasticism monk mystery mystical never nothingness one's oratio ourselves perhaps personal prayer Philokalia pray presence private prayer psalmody Psalms pure purity of heart quietism reality realize religion religious sacrifice says seek sense silence simple solitude soul speak spiritual Tauler things Thomas Merton tion true understand vocation words