The Purpose of Contemplation
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The Purpose of Contemplation
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
The other purpose of contemplation is to create more clarity in our lives by helping us diffuse challenges. You can begin this process right now if you wish. You can think about the issue that you currently find most challenging in your life and make that the focus of your contemplation.
Richard Rudd • The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity
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
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
True contemplation is the most subversive of activities because it undercuts the one thing that normally refuses to give way—our natural individualism and narcissism.
Peacemaking and Contemplation
The objective of contemplation is to keep our mind focused on one concept, but within this concept letting the mind think about and associate with similar ideas.
John Kehoe • Quantum Warrior | The Future of the Mind
The deeper role of contemplation is to allow us to come face-to-face with this universal fear that all human beings experience. This is the role of pivoting,
Richard Rudd • The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity
