"O God, be all my love, all my hope,
all my striving; let my thoughts and words
flow from you, my daily life be in you,
and every breath I take be for you."
-Cassian (c. 360-435), one of the "Desert Fathers," brought monasticism into the West.
He taught that meditation should consist in the repetition of a verse from Scripture,
'folding the recollection of God into the little space of meditation on on one verse.'
[courtesy of David!]
