If you seek after prayer with concentration, then you will surely find prayer. Nothing is more essential to prayer than concentration. Do all that you can to acquire it. Evagrios of Pontus

I begin my day with prayer and meditation to minimize distractions.

I write my meditations to encourage concentration.

I publish these writings as a form of discipline.

But it is easy for such prayer to become narrowly self-referential.

In prayer the individual strings of relationship are presented for God's weaving.

Concentration is important. But so is the reach and depth of what we bring to God.

In prayer concentration is not achieved through exclusion, but through intensity of inclusion.