![]() ![]() For as the bees fly through their meadows, settling here and there and gathering honey, which having heaped together, they work in it for the pleasure they take in its sweetness, so we meditate to gather the love of God, but having gathered it we contemplate God, and are attentive to his goodness, by reason of the sweetness which love makes us find in it. Little bees are called nymphs or schadons until they make honey, and then they are called bees: so prayer is named Meditation until it has produced the honey of devotion, and then it is converted into Contemplation. Francis de Sales Theotimus, contemplation is no other thing than a loving, simple and permanent attention of the spirit to divine things which you may easily understand by comparing meditation with it. ![]()
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