Prayer of recollection
Prayer of recollection, often shortened in Carmelite theology simply to recollection, is a form of interior prayer in Christian spirituality characterized by the withdrawal of the soul from exterior distractions and the gathering of its faculties into attentive awareness of the presence of God. The term is especially associated with Carmelite spirituality, Christian contemplation, and early modern Catholic mystical theology, where it came to designate both an ascetical discipline of interior attentiveness and a contemplative state produced more directly by divine grace.