The Book of Privy Counseling – It will suffice to say that the contemplative work, when it is authentic, is that reverent love, that ripe, harvested fruit of a man’s heart which I told you about in my little Letter on Prayer. It is the cloud of unknowing, the secret love planted deep in an undivided heart, the Ark of the Covenant.mythoughts, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God, David Reese