Devout Meditation

The Spiritual Nosegay

Francis de Sales · 1567–1622

Francis de Sales taught ordinary people to pray by placing themselves vividly within a Gospel mystery — and then, like one walking in a garden, to gather a single 'flower' of thought to breathe in all day long.

St Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part II, chs. 4 & 7.