St. Isaac strives to put into words his great experience, gained through the grace that brought him to contemplation...

St. Isaac strives to put into words his great experience, gained through the grace that brought him to contemplation. As far as human language permits the grasping and translation of the truths of religious experience, he seeks to explain as clearly as possible what contemplation is.

According to him, contemplation is the sense of divine mysteries hidden within things and events. Contemplation is found in the finest workings of the mind and in continual pondering on God.