Keeping oneself in his presence

I keep myself in his presence by simple attentiveness and a general

loving awareness of God that I call “actual presence of God” or better, a

quiet and secret conversation of the soul with God that is lasting.

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, The Practice of the Presence of God, Critical Edition,trans. Salvatore Sciurba, OCD (Washington, D.C.: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1994) 53