From the depths of the human condition a secret aspiration rises up. Caught up in the anonymous rhythms of schedules and timetables, men and women of today are implicitly thirsting for the one essential reality: an inner life of the invisible.

Nothing is more conducive to communion with the living God than a meditative COMMON PRAYER with, as its high point, singing that never end and that continues in the silence of one's heart when one is alone again. When the mystery of God becomes tangible through the simple beauty of symbols when it is smothered by too many words, then a common prayer far from exuding monotony and boredom awakens us to heaven's joy on earth.

In technological society, there is a clear separation between prayer and work. When inner life and human prayer and work, when inner life and human solidarity appear to be in competition with one another, as if people had to choose between them, that opposition tears apart the very depths of the soul.

-Bro. Roger of Taize

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