"Breathe Christ"

“Turning attention away from ourselves toward the greater reality ‘outside us’ that contains us is the great act of contemplation. It is the same act of contemplation, however we manage to do it—in relationships, in art, in service, and in prayer. Certainly, learning to meditate—a lifelong art to learn—is a fundamental way to do it. But it is not limited to the actual work of meditation. To meditate is to learn how to live contemplatively in everything we do, [to], as St Antony of the desert once called his disciples to do: ‘always breathe Christ.’” — Laurence Freeman OSB, Common Ground.