Christ spend seventy percent of his whole life in meditation.  He would sleep rarely.  All  day he gave himself to healing the sick.  At night he wold pray, sometimes all night.  He was not seeking his own self-realization.  His meditation and prayer were not for himself but for the world–for every human being.  He held the world in his consciousness through prayer, not with attachment but with compassion.  He groaned and he suffered with humanity.  To follow Jesus in the way of the cross means to say, “I lay aside all personal ambition and dedicate myself to God: ‘Here I am, God. I belong to you. I have no idea where to go.  It matters not what I am, so long as You lead me.'”

–Syrian Orthodox bishop Paulos Mar Gregorios of India, past President of the World Council of Churches (“Living Religions” by Mary Pat Fisher)