The Purpose of Contemplation
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The Purpose of Contemplation
Contemplation is very far from being just one kind of thing Christians do: it is the key to prayer, liturgy, art and ethics, the key to the essence of a renewed humanity that is capable of seeing the world and other subjects in the world with freedom—freedom from self-oriented, acquisitive habits and the distorted understanding that comes from them
... See moreMartin Laird • An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation
Our practice, whatever it is, must somehow include the problem. Contemplation is not the avoidance of the problem, but a daily merging with the problem, and finding some resolution. We quickly and humbly learn this lesson in contemplation: How we do anything is probably how we do everything.
Richard Rohr • Protecting Silence and Solitude
One of the hallmarks of contemplation is simplicity. As you learn to contemplate, you will learn to gradually simplify your life. The less cluttered your external life is, the less cluttered your mind will feel.
Richard Rudd • The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity
The contemplative mind prays from a different sense of Who–I–am. It rests, and abides in the Great I AM, and draws its life from the Larger Vine (John 15:4–5), the Deeper Well (John 4:10–14).
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
Martin Laird • 3 highlights
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