Prayer and meditation have always formed the core of the mystical life, but they have all too often been left in the realm of the "vowed" adherents, the monks, the priests, and such, other than for that occasional gathering in church or other event. Meditation and prayer are probably humanity's most recognizable inner practices for making contact with the spiritual domain. Forms of these can be found in almost every religion, both East and West …showed first 75 words of 1559 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1559 total…If the ultimate goal of Christianity is to know and love God better, I personal see this not being achieve fully without of the inclusion of meditation in a Christian life. There is a saying, “you can never fully and truly love/know some else until you can fully and truly love/know yourself.” Meditation allows for the knowing and loving of yourself regardless of the religious doctrine you use to support it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**