constraint (and hence only temporarily). It is the whole man that must turn to God; the whole man must go into solitude, to listen exclusively to the word of God. And the whole man, including his innermost self, must then make himself available for the service of God in the world and among his brothers. In view of this truth, which we can see plainly from the history of revelation, we can expect to find the same basic tensions operating in the act of hearing and contemplating the word in its interior