Peacemaking and 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
True peace work requires a spiritual dimension—the practice of peace.
Thich Nhat Hanh • The Art of Living: mindful techniques for peaceful living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders
Contemplation is simply trying to face life in a truly undefended and open-eyed way.11
Gerald G. May MD • Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
Transforming Pain - A Daily Meditation by Fr. Richard Rohr
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It is work to learn how to pray, largely the work of emptying the mind and filling the heart.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Another form of meditation is what the contemplatives of the Middle Ages called “re-collection,” and what the Quakers have often called “centering down.”
Richard J. Foster • Celebration of Discipline, Special Anniversary Edition: The Path to Spiritual Growth
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 word prayer, which Bill Wilson rightly juxtaposes with the word meditation, is a code word for an entirely different way of processing life.