Recollection is a dwelling within ourselves; a being abstracted from the creature, and turned towards God. Recollection is both outward and inward. Outward recollection consists in silence from all idle and superfluous words: and in solitude, or a wise disentanglement from the world, keeping to our own business, observing and following the order of God for ourselves, and shutting the ear against all curious and unprofitable matters. Inward recollection consists in shutting the door of the senses, in a deep attention to the presence of God, and in a continual care of entertaining holy thoughts
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