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15. The essence of prayer![]() Do not these words “contemplative” and “contemplative vocation” frighten you. Do not picture an exceptional vocation so high that most people can never come near it. Brother Charles of Jesus tells you what it means. It is a completely simple, trusting and loving attitude of someone talking intimately with Jesus. It is the affection of a little child for his father, the confident sharing of a friend with a friend:
This is the essence of prayer and the meaning of contemplation. As you work, as you come and go, as you pass among the crowds, to be a contemplative will means simply that you try to turn to Jesus within you and to enter into conversation with him, as with the one you love most in the world:
Then you will not lose your way in the midst of the world’s activity:
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