"The goal of the Christian life – both in this world and the world to come – is union with God.
But this union should not be identified with ecstatic states, even though such states occur.
More fundamental to union with God is our sense of God’s continual presence, an inner stillness that is available to all Christians.
This habitual presence is to be in constant prayer, to be always present to God and to know that God is always present to us."
-Diogenes Allen, Spiritual Theology