The word meditation attracts people, touching in us what we are constantly searching for in the depths of our heart. When asked why we want to meditate many of us would answer that we do it in search for peace and to return to our inner selves. Where is the source of internal peace? Is it possible to find a fixed reference point amongst various existential landscapes and emotional maelstroms? Learn from the mountain … learn from the ocean … learn from the poppy seed flower … recommends Father Seraphim from Mount Athos. For a Christian, meditation is something more than a prayer – it is direct...

The Jesus Prayer is one of the oldest and at the same time one of the simplest forms of Christian meditation.It is the so-called non-discursive form of prayer - the prayer of the heart.Its tradition dates back to the period of the Desert Fathers in the 4th century.It was born out of the search for unceasing prayer: how to reconcile continuous remaining in God's presence with daily activity?In its "pure form" it consists in remaining silent before God in an act of faith, leaving only one word or one-sentence prayer formula repeated regularly, e.g. in the rhythm of the breath.This is a prayer...

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2562  Where does prayer come from?Whether prayer is expressed in words or gestures, it is the whole man who prays.But in naming the source of prayer, Scripture speaks sometimes of the soul or the spirit, but most often of the heart (more than a thousand times).According to Scripture, it is the heart that prays.If our heart is far from God, the words of prayer are in vain. 2563  The heart is the dwelling-place where I am, where I live; according to the Semitic or Biblical expression, the heart is the place "to which I withdraw."The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our...