Certain souls complain sometimes and say they cannot meditate because their exercise is heavy and they get bored, and ask of their Superior a lighter routine of spiritual discipline. Superiors also observe how methods of meditation do not result according to their expectation in all cases; they do not see an evident advance in prayer and there is an apparent stagnation.
A prayer cannot be complete and total if our whole being is not devoted to it. When we say “whole being”, this does not mean an intense sensible flight, but a being as a whole.
Prayer shall be full when a man has to transform himself into testimony of faith, and to discern continuously obvious truths and possible truths in the teaching. A soul remains always on a state of perfect prayer when the divine truth is centered on it.
Your prayer cannot be full when contains remnants of self-interest. However spiritual this egotism be, it cannot be an expansive universal feeling.
A man can go beyond his little miseries only through renunciation to his own miseries.
In sensitive meditation you perceive the image through your five senses. It aims at refining your sensibility and sharpening your perception. But this exercise prevents from going beyond sensible evidences.
You see an image and you understand another thing, but not whatever you do, but what this image represents as a symbol.
For instance: you see a door, and you understand a possibility.