Fra Thomas Mertons "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander":
Fra Gerald G. Mays "Addiction & Grace":
Fra Johannes af korsets "Levende kærlighedsflamme":
Vi er nok alle bekendt med variationer i hvordan vi oplever vores daglige bønsperioder. Carl McColman, som før drev "The website of unknowing", beskriver i denne artikel følgende slags dage i hans bønspraksis:
- Sometimes when I sit in silence, I’m not really very silent.
- Sometimes when I sit in silence, I encounter a similar dance between my thoughts and the silence, but during these times I find lovely, rich moments of sheer presence, between the chatter and the emotions.
- Sometimes when I sit in silence I relax deeply.
- Sometimes when I sit in silence my mind is buzzing with creative ideas.
- Sometimes when I sit in silence I do what my Buddhist friends call “forgetting the instructions”.
- Sometimes when I sit in silence it all really seems to click.
- Sometimes when I sit in silence I seem to find a path through all of the above.
