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The Contemplative Way
Here are some of the ways that contemplatives through the ages have described contemplative life and awareness.
Contemporary Contemplatives
Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now.
–Thich Nhat Hanh
A continual condition of prayerful sensitivity to what is really going on.
–Douglas Van Steere
Seeing through exterior things, and seeing God in them. –
Thomas Merton
Our increasing availability to the truth.
–
Gerald May
Silence opens up the unconscious; it's a kind of deep therapy, much deeper than ordinary therapy. It's opening to who we really are. --
Bede Griffiths
The world becoming luminous from within as one plunges breathlessly into human activity. –
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Luminous depth gazing into luminous depth.
–Martin Laird
Contemplatives Throughout History
Awareness absorbed and amazed.
–Teresa of Avila
Divine wakefulness with pure and naked intuition.
--Gregory of Nyssa
Right understanding, with true longing, absolute trust, and sweet grace-giving mindfulness.
–Julian of Norwich
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action
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–
Meister Eckhardt
Dayspring SIlent Retreat Center, Germantown, MD