Transforming the idea into a feeling

Max Jacob to a student:

Meditation isn't about having ideas; quite the opposite! It's about having one, transforming it into a feeling, a conviction. A meditation is good when it culminates in a YES, uttered by the whole body, a cry from the heart: joy or sorrow! a tear or a burst of laughter. Just try meditating on this: God became man. Repeat this to yourself until you arrive at conviction. It doesn't matter what images come to mind—an image of Christ, or a child, or a young man, or the crucified Christ. It doesn't matter. Repeat on your knees: God became man! For how long? That depends on your capacity. There are good ten-minute meditations and bad ones that last an hour. In short, meditate at least twice a day.

I am not talking to you about prayer, about contemplation, firstly because I don't understand much about it, secondly because I don't want to make you a mystic, but just a man.