“Without resting, his mouth ruminated the sacred words.” 
     Of John of Gorze it was claimed that the murmur of his 
     lips pronouncing the Psalms resembled the buzzing of a 
     bee. To meditate is to attach oneself closely to the 
     sentence being recited and weigh all its words in order to 
     sound the depths of their full meaning. It means 
     assimilating the content of a text by means of a kind of 
     mastication which releases its full flavor. It means, as St. 
     Augustine, St. Gregory, John of Fécamp and others say in 
     an untranslatable expression, to taste it with the 
     palatum cordis  or in ore cordis . All this activity is, 
     necessarily, a prayer; the lectio divina  is a prayerful 
     reading. Thus, the Cistercian, Arnoul of Bohériss, will give 
     this advice:

          When he reads, let him seek for savor, not science.