Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

- John Main

Meditation begins with a call that awakes us out of the coma of self-preoccupation. We are called, we are chosen. Meditation is our response to that …

- John Main

The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the ch…

- John Main

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to …

- John Main

The important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not only a reality but t…

- John Main

That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

- John Main