CONTEMPLATION
Nourishing Our Souls
Christian Contemplation is a process, an experience,
a lifelong practice. It results in an expansion of consciousness ...
... an opening of our minds and hearts to the present moment, and seeing God in it. It involves a sense of knowing … a knowing of, not merely knowing about. And it grows out of a relationship with ourselves, and with God, based on experience.
It is the sacrament of living in the present moment, in the midst of the circumstances that we find ourselves, that teaches us how to actually experience our experiences, and how to let them transform us and our relationships with one another. It is transcendent. It helps us transcend ourselves. And with each level of self-knowledge that we enter, we are changed.
Our prayer isn’t for God to change our lives, but rather for God to change us. As it’s never really a circumstance that needs to change – it’s we who need to change. Hence the role of contemplative practices is in healing the state of our minds.
Learn through Wisdom
Transformed by Experience
Energised
by Love
Soul Sustenance
Learning To See
Richard Rohr on the urgent need for Contemplative Seeing and how to learn to see in a way that helps us transcend ourselves...
Silence, our greatest need
“Our greatest need is to be silent before God…for the only language he hears is the silent language of love” St John of the Cross. Fr Bruce on the value of the prayer of stillness and watchfullness ...
Going Home
Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish author on how to see the true self, rather than the delusions of the false one shaped by the desire of who we would be if we could...
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Christian Contemplation - Resources
