The Muscle of Attention Needs Therapy

The danger is that our religiosity and other forms of prayer, however busy we are with them, can become distractions. That primary, all-important quality of pure attention, which is pure prayer, begins to waste away. Meditation doesn't replace any other form of prayer that you find helpful or through which you can grow in your love of God. But if we don't have this centrality of contemplation in our practice of prayer, then the danger is. The therapy of the soul is prayer, pure prayer.