Damage and Debris of a Lifetime

As prayer becomes more intimate, grace reaches down
into the depths of our psyche, empowering it to unload
the emotional damage and debris of a lifetime. In
time we will make the transition from going to God
through reason and particular acts of the will to
going to him more directly through the intuitive
faculties. Then God will relate to us through them
instead of through the external senses, memory,
imagination, reasoning, and acts of the will.

- Thomas Keating, Invitation to Love