Notes from Wikiquote
and the second is more honorable than the first | as a mature man is more perfect than an immature child. | Sometimes verses become sweet in a man’s mouth | and during prayer one verse is chanted numberless times | and does not permit him to continue to the next | for he can find no satiety therein. | But sometimes a certain divine vision is born of prayer | and the prayer of a man’s lips is cut short | and stricken with awe by this vision | he becomes as it were a body bereft of breath. | This (and the like) we call the divine vision of prayer | and not, as fools affirm it to be, some image and form, or a representation of the imagination. | And further, in the divine vision of prayer | there exist measures and distinctions of gifts. | Till this point it is still prayer | for the mind has not yet passed to where there is no prayer | that state is above prayer. | The movements of the tongue and the heart in prayer are keys | what comes after them, however, is the entrance into the treasury. | Here let every mouth, every tongue become silent | and let the heart (the treasurer of the thoughts) | and the mind (the ruler of the senses) | and the reason (that swift-winged and most shameless bird) | and their every device be still. | Here let those who seek tarry | for the Master of the house has come. | Homily 23, pp. 238-9