emptiness

the problem of moving from the computer into prayer:
from the world of things we can see and touch into the world of things that we can neither see, nor touch nor even often feel.
fr.tim radcliffe [in a sermon] writes of the sacred emptiness at the core of the life of a monk.

the temptation to idolatry (the love of things) knows no bounds:
the battle must be taken up afresh each morning.