Ruhsal Rehber: İçsel Sessizliğin Yolu

...they have labored; and those who are drawn by God toward contemplative prayer find it especially beneficial that, if they wish to devote themselves to this exercise, they renounce their own activity. They should no longer attend to the many ideas and reasonings of our own Spirit, nor to the movements of the imagination born of one's own desire and will, indeed, not even, as far as can be avoided, to the temptations and thoughts suggested by the adversary. Behold! This is the Inaction and inattention which he recommends to beginners and to his disciples. But it is simply not true that no activity of attention toward God, or desire for love, hope, humility, submission, patience, and aversion to temptations and resistance (to prevent consent or the carrying out of sins), should be maintained. This remains true even though the Author tries to persuade his readers otherwise, repeating over and over: No attention, no action, no desires; without thoughts, without work; nothing of this, nothing of that; this is the extinction of all Piety.