Whenever I become aware of imaginal causality at play in a situation, I am also distinctly aware that it does not arise from entirely within myself. It enters.

We tend to think of contemplation as having to do with thinking, but it is really more a creative process of coming into dialogue with other forces, such as emotions. The prefix con-, meaning “with,” tells us that it’s a collaborative process, and templum, the Latin word for temple, connotes a sacred space where a deity was believed to reside. And

We can begin by reuniting our estranged worlds, seen and unseen, by tending to their equivalence in our lives.