The Prayer of Centering Down

Prayer or meditation requires what Quakers call, "centering down." Of this centering down, Peter Fingesten has written:

Centering down is like letting oneself sink slowly into the vast, unexplored ocean of the inner self as vast and unexplored as the trackless spaces of the cosmos. When one has completely submerged oneself in that silent depth, one can begin the interior dialogue in which a stilled mind encounters the silence of the soul. When the silence of the mind has merged with that of the soul, it is ready to listen to the silence of eternity. Peter Fingesten FRIENDS BULLETIN Friends Meeting At Cambridge