But our conversation with Jesus is, in large measure listening. Our conversations cannot be monologues. Often, we must stop conversing and in peace and tranquility, wait. The great saints reach still a higher kind of contemplation. They are totally silent.
All inner conversation is stopped.
They have achieved a full union of the mind and of the emotions with Jesus Christ. St. Thomas Aquinas celebrating Mass at Naples was in a trance, crying. In practice, all of this is most difficult. We try to meditate and our minds zip away to other things. So we become discouraged.