The Heart of Contemplation

The Heart of Contemplation can be very big, like a snow-covered landscape, or very small, like the small botanicals of a dried flower arrangement. The common and distinguishing features are Silence and attention to that Silence.

Contemplation does not seek to achieve anything, only to acknowledge and honour What Is, which is the earthly manifestation of I AM.

To become contemplatives, we must become as children again. Times are set aside for everything a child needs in his or her life: time to wake up and time to go school; time to eat and time to brush your teeth; nap time and play time; time to read a story and time to go to bed. The rhythms of the day are built around these things, but none of them are really meant to achieve anything. They just ARE.

So, too, when we enter the Silence, and especially when we carry it with us in daily life, do we return to the rhythms of our souls and perceive What Is.

Be silent.

Be.