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on you. He is simply praying for you. Dionysius says:
THIS IS MY PRAYER.
"This is what I would like to see happening in you. This is my wish, my prayer. So don't take it as an order; it is not that you have to do it. It is not that if you don't do it you will be punished, thrown into hell for eternity. There is no need to listen to me, there is no need to follow me. This is only my prayer, because I have experienced such transcendent beauty through AGNOSIA that I would like you, beloved Timothy, also to share it. I would like to share it with you. If you are ready, the sharing can happen."
And this is the way to be ready: exert yourself sincerely -- not seriously but sincerely. There are people who are always doing things halfheartedly; lukewarm is their life. They never achieve anything because they are always holding back. They never move into anything totally, intensely. They are always standing on the bank and thinking of the farther shore. Or even if sometimes they try, they are riding on two horses; in case the one fails, the other will always be there. They are riding in two boats. Their life is so divided that whatsoever they do they always do with a dividedness. And any flowering of consciousness is possible only when there is an organic unity in you. Hence:
... be sincere IN MYSTICAL CONTEMPLATION, QUIT THE SENSES...
Dionysius says: Watch your senses. You are not the eye but the consciousness standing behind the eye. The eye is only a window -- don't get identified with it. And so are all other senses: they are only windows. You are standing behind the window -- don't become the window! Don't start thinking, "I am the frame of the window."
That's what everybody is doing. You become identified with your senses, you become identified with your mind, you become identified with a thousand and one things.
And you completely forget that you are only one thing and that IS witnessing, consciousness, awareness.
... QUIT THE SENSES, THE WORKINGS OF THE INTELLECT...
Don't get involved in the mind. Watch the mind pass by. Slowly slowly the functioning of the mind ceases
... AND ALL THAT MAY BE SENSED
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