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NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION QUOTES 

Our true self is hidden/what appears to be nothingness.We can rise above

this unreality.

RECOVERY/OUR  HIDDEN REALITY

In our creation

He asks a question. 

In our truly living;

 God  answers 

the  question.

Our vocation is to work to- gether w/God/the creation of

 our life/destiny/to work out 

our identity in God. 

To be unknown to God is entirely too much privacy

We thank Him 

by words and the 

serene happiness
 of acceptance.
 It's our emptiness 
in the presence of 
His reality/our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence/our joy in the bosom /the serene darkness in which His light holds/absorbs us. All this praises Him.

Don't look for rest in any pleasure b/c you weren't created for pleasure: you were 
created for spiritual joy.  If you don't know 
the difference between pleasure/spiritual 

joy you havn't begun to live.

There's only one problem which all my existence/peace/ happiness depend: 
to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find my-self. If I find my true self I will find Him.

To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a sense die.

  This death is the entrance into a higher life. It's a death for the sake of life which 

leaves behind all that 
we can know or 

treasure as life/ thought/experience/  joy/being/every form of intuition/experience. Die to be born again on a higher level of life.

The ever-changing reality we live may awaken us to the possibility of an uninterrupted dialogue w/ God of love/choice/deep wills.

Justify my soul, O God, but also from Your fountains fill my will with fire. Shine in my

 mind, although perhaps this means “be darkness to my experience.

Let my eyes see nothing in the world but Your glory.  Let my hands touch nothing that 

isn't for Your service.

Let me use 
all things to find my 
joy giving

 You glory.

keep me from sin. Keep me from death of 
deadly sin which puts hell in my soul.

The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them the great evil of sin induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," after that he lets them spend   the rest of their lives meditating on the

 intense sinfulnessof others.

Keep me from the murder of lust

  that blinds and poisons my heart. 

Keep me from the dead works of vanity and thankless labor artists destroy them-selves for pride/money/reputation and saints are smothered under the avalanche of their own zeal.

Stanch in me the 

rank wound of covetousness/

the hungers that exhaust my nature 

w/ their bleeding.

Stamp out the serpent envy that stings love w/ poison/kills all joy.

Untie my hands/deliver my heart fr sloth.

 Set me free fr. laziness that goes abt disguised as activity when activity isn't 

required of me/fr cowardice that does 

what isn't needed to escape sacrifice. 

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Give me strength that waits on You in silence peace.

Give me humility which alone is rest. 

Possess my whole heart and soul w/ the simplicity of love. Occupy my life w/ one thought/desire of love.

May I not love 
for the sake of 

perfection/

merit/virtue
/sanctity. 

         Only love
          You alone.

What in God might appear to us as "play" perhaps is what he takes most seriously.

the Lord plays/diverts Himself in the gar-

den of His creation. If we could let go of our obsession

 w/ what we think is the meaning of it all we might be able to hear His call/follow Him in 
His mysterious 

cosmic dance.

We don't have to

go very far to catch

 echoes of that game/dancing. When we are alone on a starlit night; when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see 
children in a moment when

   they really are children; when

 we know love 

in our hearts; 

when, like the Japanese poet Bashō we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash--at such times the awakening, turning inside out all values, the "newness,"/

 emptiness/purity of vision that make themselves evident provide a glimpse 

of the cosmic dance.

the world/time 

are the dance of the Lord in emptiness

In the end the con- templative suffers the anguish of realizing that he no longer knows what God is.💔

The contemplative may or may not realize this is a great gain, because “God is not a what,” not a “thing.” That's one of the essential characteristics of contemplative experience. 💔 It sees there is no “what” that can be called God. 

There is “no such thing” as God because God is neither a “what” nor a “thing” but a pure “Who.” He is the “Thou” before whom our inmost “I” springs into awareness. He is the I Am before whom with our own most personal and inalienable voice we echo “I am.”

no despair of ours can alter the reality of things; or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there. We are in the midst of it, and it is in the midst of us, for it beats in our very blood, whether we want it to or not.

https://youtu.be/q2dMSfmUJec

 We're invited to forget ourselves on purpose/cast our  solemnity to the winds/ 

join in the general dance.

💔 the deep certitude 💔of contemplative experience 

awakens a tragic anguish/ opens many questions in the depths of the heart like wounds that cannot stop bleeding

💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

FOR EVERY GAIN IN DEEP CERTITUDE THERE'S A CORRESPONDING GROWTH OF SUPER-

FICIAL "DOUBT". 

GENUINE  FAITH 

 mercilessly questions 

the spurious "faith" of everyday life/ human 

faith which is  but the passive acceptance of conventional opinion.

Real contemplation

 is incompatible w/ complacency/compliance of bigotry. It's

 not passive to surrender the status quo. 

This would reduce it to

 spiritul anesthesia.

It b/c impossible

 to comfort them-

selves w/ images/
concepts they 
found reassuring 
in childhood. 

Place no hope in the feeling of assurance in spiritual comfort. One may have to get along without this. Self-

confidence is a natural

 sign of health.  It's not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper: it must be. It

 subsists when self

confidence/self 
respectis gone 
when one is weak/

sick. FAITH MUST BE 

ABLE TO GO ON EVEN 

 WHEN EVERYTHING IS TAKEN AWAY. Only one

humble enough is able to accept 

faith on terms like these w/o reserve.

One is glad of it in

  it's pure state/

 welcomes it w/joy

when nothing else comes w/ it. 

Destiny is to be softened and prepared in this life by God’s will to receive at their death the seal of their own degree of likeness to God in Christ.

The more we persist misunderstanding the 

phenomena of life/over

 analyzing them into

complex purposes/

 finalities of our own/involving ourselves

in our own dispare we experience more absurdity / despair / sadness. 

If one spends one's life escaping fr the heat of the fire that is meant to soften/

prepare one to b/c one's true self/to keep substance fr melting in the fire as if one's true identity were to be hard wax—the seal will fall on one at last and crush one. One will not be able to take one's own

 true name / countenance. One will be destroyed by the event that was meant to 

be one's fulfillment.

The real purpose of

 meditation is this: 

 teach a man how to work himself free 

of created things / temporal concerns 

 which he finds con-

 confusion /sorrow. Enter into a conscious loving contact w/ God which he is dis-posed to receive God's help he knows 

he needs so badly/ to praise /honor give/thanks / love God whom it's 

now b/c his joy to give.”

Be poor, go down into the far end of society. Take the last place among men. Live with those who are despised. Love other men. Serve 

them instead of making them serve you. 

Turn away from things that 

satisfy your senses and your mind. 

Look for God in hunger / thirst / dark-

ness, through deserts of the spirit  

which seems to be madness to travel. 

Take upon yourself 

  Christ’s burden the

Cross: that is Christ’s humility, obedience, 
poverty/renunciation.

You will find peace for your souls.

Our vocation is not

 simply to be, but to work together w/ God in the creation of our own life, identity, destiny. To work out our identity in God.

When men live huddled together w/o true rapport there seems to be a greater sharing/real communion. This

 immersion is the

meaninglessness of countless slogans and clichés repeated over and over again. In the end one lis-tens w/out hear- ing/responds w/othinking.

The constant din of empty words and machine noises/ the endless booming 
of loudspeakers end by making true communication and true communion almost impossible.

A humble man takes what there is in the world that helps him to find God/leaves the rest aside

There's no

cogito 'I think no ergo 'therefore' 

but only SUM.

I AM. Not in the sense of a futile assertion of our individuality as ultimately real/in the humble realization of our mysterious being as persons in whom God dwells w/

 infinite sweetness/complete power.

FAITH” that merely

confirms us in con-ceit/complacency is an expression of theological doubt.

True faith is never merely a source of spiritual comfort. It may bring peace.

 Before it does  it must involve us in struggle. Faith that avoids struggle 
is a temptation 

against true faith.

Genuine con-templation is

 incompatible w/

bigoted opinions/

 smug acceptance/
of complacency.

If we have chosen the way of falsity we must not be sur-prised that truth
eludes us when we

come to need it.

 There might be some incongruity in 

praying to the God of peace Who told  us to love each other as He had loved us warned us that they who took the sword would perish by it/at the same time planned to annihilate mil- lions of civilians, soldiers, men, women, children, w/o discrimination, even w/  almost infallible certainty of inviting the same annihilation for ourselves!

When I pray for peace I'm not praying the Russians will give up w/o a struggle and let us have our own way. I'm praying both we and the Russians may somehow be re-stored to sanity/learn to work out our prob -lems as best we can together instead of preparing for global suicide.

It's “their Jesus” who gets in the way/makes all thought of Jesus impos-sible. They wish to force their Jesus on us.  
He is perhaps only a projection of themselves. Are they asking to be loved, 
recognized, valued for themselves?

The humble man takes whatever there is in the world that helps him to find God and leaves the rest aside.

The only justification

 for a life of deliberate

 solitude/the convic-
tion  it will help you

 love God and men.

In Sophia, the highest wisdom, greatness/majesty of the unknown God, all that

 is rich/maternal/

creative is united/

 inseparable as paternal/maternal principles: the uncreated Father

/created Wisdom.

God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of Himself. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice

that utters it.


You may have to do w/out 

hope in as-

surance/spirit-

ual comfort. 

 Humility delivers a man from attachment to his his own works reputation.  

We discovers  joy is 

possible when we 

have completely 

forgotten ourselves. 

True faith must be 
able to go on when everything else is taken away from us.

When they began to struggle w/real dif- ficulties/burdens of mature life they b/c aware of their own weakness/lost their peace/let go of their self-respect/ and it became impossible for them to “believe. 

One who hates w/a quiet conscience is one who's smugly blind to all un-worthiness in him-self and is serenely capable of seeing all his own wrongs in someone else.

as long as you pretend to live in pure autonomy, as your own master, without even a god to rule you, you will inevitably live as the servant of another man or as the alienated member of an organization.

 it's acceptance of God that makes you
 free/ delivers you fr. human tyranny.

When you serve 

Him you aren't longer

permitted to alienate your spirit in human

 servitude. 

God didn't invite the

  Children of Israel to leave the slavery of  

Egypt: He commanded them to do so. 

THE poet enters into himself in order to create. The contemplative enters into God

in order to be created.

THE contemplative who is guided by him-self is the most dangerous man. He trusts

his own vision/identifies the will of God w/ things that make him feel w/in 

his own heart a big warm inner glow. The warmer the feeling the more he's sure of his

infallibility.

To consent 

to His will is to consent to be true/ to speak truth/to seek it.

To obey Him is to respond to His will expressed in the need of another person, or at least to respect the rights of others.

 the right of another man is the expression of God’s love and God’s will

No man who ig-

nores the rights

/needs of others

can hope to walk

 in the light of contemplation.

His way has turned

aside fr truth/compassion therefore fr God

The requirements 

of a work to be done can be understood as the will of God. 

If I am supposed 
to hoe a garden or make a table I will be obeying God. If 

I'm true to the task I'll be doing the work

well w/love/respect for the nature of it w/

  attention to its purpose. This is to unite 

  myself to God’s will in my work. This way

  I b/c His instrument/He works thru me. 

frantic/anxious work done un-der pressure of greed or fear

 or any other inordinate pas-

sion, can't be    dedicated to God, b/c God never wills such work directly. 

Sometimes we work madly/dis-

tractedly due to

 our sins/ to the sins of the society we live in.

The saints were absorbed in God. 

They were capable of see/appreciating

 created things/they loved Him alone. They alone loved everybody. 

The saint is never offended by anything and judges no man’s sin because he does

not know sin.

 Saints know the mercy of God. They know that His own mission on earth is to bring mercy to all men.

We don't choose to

 awaken  our-selves. God chooses to awaken us.”

 To renounce resentment one has to renounce the shadow self. 

       The shadow.              self feels itself 

menaced by 

the confusion without which

 it can't persist.💔

https://youtu.be/HODqykNZopg

Contemplations 
 open out to the mystery of God when

  it arrives at reality after an intuitive awakening when one's personal reality 
 is alive to it's existential depths. 

  There is one problem which all my ex-istence/peace and happiness depend: to discover my true self I will find Him💔

 Like the disciples of Emmaus, you will realize how fitting it was that your heart  burn w/in you when the incidents of your day’s work spoke to you of Christ Who 

lived, worked and offered His sacrifice in you all the time.

 In a totalitarian parade: the self-righteous upsurge

of party loyalty absolves every

 criminal tend-
ency/blots out con-

science in the name 

of sect/class/Nation/Party/Race the ex-

perience of being taken out of oneself

captured by collective zeal. 

The danger/attraction of false mystiques of Nation Class is they seduce/pretend to sat-tisfy those who are not aware of any deep
 or genuine spiritual need.

 Hunger born of humility which can't be

 satisfied w/ formulas/arguments which 

looks for something closer to God than

analogy brings you 

 the penetrating/ serene hunger of the Spirit. It goes  beyond the serface words of human

formulation of my-

steries. It seeks the

 humiliation of silent interior pov-

erty/intellectual sol-

itude gifts of a supernatural apprehension words cannot truly signify.💔

The mystery of Jesus in the Gospel con-

centrates the rays of God’s light / fire to a point. It sets fire to the spirit of man.

Sometimes this reduced existence lauded as humility/self-sacrifice or obedience is

 devotion to the dialectic of class war. It produces a kind of peace/not peace. It's only  escape from an  urgent sense of conflict/isn't anesthetic or peace. Isn't self realization/self dedication.

It's a flight into irresponsibility.

Each moment brings 
w/ it germs of spiritual vitality that come to 
rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Such seeds as 
these cannot spring up anywhere except in the good soil of spontaneity

love and freedom. 

Don't think you can show your love for Christ by hating those who seem to be His enemies on earth. Suppose they really do 

hate Him: nevertheless 

He loves them, and you can't be united with Him unless you love them too. 💔💔🎁

Humility is 
the surest sign 
of strength.

 Contemplatives 
suffer anguish 
of realizing one
 does not know 
what God is. 

Christ's Spirit  

is able to love you, everyone, God the Father in a way that wouldn't  be possible in anybody else. 

The will of God doesn't come to us 

as mere external dictates of law. His law is an interior invitation of love. 

The conventional conception of 

“God’s will” as sphinx-like arbitrary force bearing down on us w/ im-

placable hostility leads men to lose faith in a God they can't  love.

He is Three Persons, but One God. He is at once infinite solitude (one nature) and perfect society.

One Infinite Love/three relationships.

Instead of worshipping God through His creation we are always trying to worship ourselves by means of creatures. 

 The infinite Love of God is always be-

ginning in the Fa-ther. In the Son it's full. In the Holy Spirit it's perfect. 

It's  renewed. It never rests in It's

endless source. 

If you write 

only for your-

self you can 

read what you  

wrote ten minutes later you'll be so disgusted you'll wish you were dead.

No idea of Him, however pure and perfect is adequate to express Him as He really is. 

Our idea of God tells us more abt our-selves then abt Him. Such a view of the

 divine will drives human weakness 

to despair. One wonders if it's not
 itself often the expression of in-

tolerable despair that can't be admitted to conscious consideration. 

/arbitrary "dic-

tates” of a dom-

mineering insen-
sible Father are more often seeds of hatred than love. If that's our concept of the will of God we can't possibly seek the obscure intimate mystery of the encounter that
takes place in contemplation.

  We will desire only to fly as far as possible from Him and hide from His Face forever.

We must learn to realize that the love of God seeks us in every situation and

seeks our Good. 

His inscrutable 
love  seeks our awakening.

 This awakening

implies a kind 

of death to our exterior self. We will dread His coming in proportion as we are identified with this exterior self and attached to it.

 God’s love warms 

me in the sun/

 sends the cold/

  feeds me by hunger/fasting/

sends the winter days when I'm 

cold  sick. In sum-

mer when I work

 my clothes are 

 full of sweat: it's God who breaths on  me w/light winds

off the river and 

 breezes out of 

 the woods. 

His love

 seeks our 

awakening

His love spreads the shade of the

 sycamore over my head/sends the water boy along the edge of the wheat field with a 

bucket fr the spring. The lab-orers are resting. The mules stand under the tree. 

Contemplation is   awareness  this “I” isn't really "I”. It's awakening of the unknown “I” that's beyond ob- servation/reflec- ction. It's  incap-able of commenting on itself. Its nature is to be hidden, unnamed, unidentified in the society where men talk abt them- 
selves and one another. The true “I” re- mains inarticulate/invisible because it has  too much to say. Not one word is about itself.

 God’s love speaks to me in the birds and streams; but also behind the 
din of the city. God speaks to me in His judgments. All these things are seeds sent to me from His will. 🎁💔

If these seeds would take root in my liberty and grow I would b/c the love

  He is and my har-
  vest would be His glory /my own joy. 

We never see 
the one truth 

that would help us solve ethical/political problems: 

we're all more or less wrong. 

We're all at fault, limited, obstruc-ted by our mixed motives, self-ception, greed, self-righteousnes, tendency to aggressivity/hypocrisy.

 One can't enter into the deepest center of oneself and pass through that center into God unless one is willing to pass 

 out of oneself empty

 oneself/give oneself to others/ the purity 

of selfless love. 

The only One 

Who can teach me 

to find God is God Himself. 

But someone will say: "if we recognize
We're all equally wrong all political

action will be inept.  

We can only act when we are in the right.

🦋🦋🦋

I believe the basis for 
valid political action is

the recognition solutions
 to problems aren't 

 accessible to any one is-olated party/ nation.  all must arrive at it by working together.

One who is aware of one’s s own unworth/the worthlessness/others is

 tempted w/ 

  hate: hate of

everyone and

everything is

tainted w/un-

worthiness,

unclean w/ sin.

Nothings more

 alien to con-templation than the cogito/ergo 

sum of Descartes.“I think therefore I am.” This is the de-

decree of an alien-

ated being in exile

from his spiritual core urged to seek

 cheer proving his own existence(!)

The more I b/c identified w/ with God the more will I be identified with all others who are identified w/ Him.🧡

We shall love one another God w/

 the same Love with which He loves us 

and Himself. This love is God Himself.

He arrives at his 

being as if it were

an objective real-lity. He strives to b/c aware of Him-self as he would of

some“thing” alien to himself. He proves  the “thing” exist. He satisfies Himself.  God the infinite/transcendent is also a “thing,” an “object,” like other finite and limited objects of our thought!”

Contemplation

is the experiential grasp of reality as 

existential mystery

Contemplation doesn't arrive at reality after a process of  de-duction. Intuitively awakening our free personal reality we become alive to its own existential depths opening to the mystery of God.

The perfection of the contemplative life is a sea of love which flows through One

Body of all the elect,  angels 

saints. Their contemplation would be incom-

plete if it weren't.   shared w/ fewer souls/spirits capable of less vision and less joy.(With the alcoholic 

who still suffers.) 

At the root of all war is fear: not so much the fear men have of one another as the fear of every-thing. They don't t even trust them-selves. If they aren't sure when some-

one else may turn around and kill them

they are less sure when they may turn around and kill themselves. They  can't trust anything, because they 

have ceased to believe in God.”

The wicked run away when no one is chasing them, but the godly are as bold as lions. ... Wicked people run away when no one one chases them. Those who live right are as brave as lions.

Proverbs 28:1

I will have more joy 

in heaven and in the contemplation of God, if you are also there to share it with me. The more of us there the greater will be the joy of all.”

The only One 

to teach me

 to find God 

is God Alone.

Perhaps we still have a   superstitious tendency to associate failure w/ dis-donesty and guilt—failure interpreted as “punishment.

If he wasn't guilty he was "wrong." 

 “being wrong” is some-
thing we haven't learned to face w/ equanimity under-
standing. We either con-

demn it with god-like dis-dain or forgive it with god-like condescension. We don't manage to accept it with human compassion, hum-
ility identification. We never see the one truth that would help us begin to solve our ethicalpolitical problems: we are all more or less wrong, we are all at fault, all limited and obstructed by our mixed motives, self-deception, greed,  self-righteousness and  tendency to aggressivity and hypocrisy.”

Human faith which is nothing but passive acceptance of opinion is false "faith". It's what

we often live 

by confuse w/

our“religion”It's subjected

to questions. 

 This torment is a kind of trial by fire which we are compelled by the very light of invisible truth which reached us in the ray of

contemplation to examine, doubt, re-

ject all the prejudices/conventions we have  accepted as if they were laws. 🎁💔

The contemplative is not isolated in himself. One is liberated fr one's 

exernal and ego-

tistic self by humility and purity of heart—therefore there's no longer any serious obstacle to simple humble love of other men.

Individually/collectively we must try to

 accept ourselves as good and/or bad. 

W/mysterious, unaccountable mixture of good

 and evil We
 stand by the scraps of good 

 in us without exaggerating it. We have to defend our real rights, b/c unless we respect our own rights we

 won't respect the rights of others. We have to recognize that we have will-fully trespassed on the rights of others. We must be able to admit this not only as a result of self-examination but when it's pointed 
out unexpectedly by somebody else.

My true personality will be fulfilled in  Mystical Christ in one way above all. Through me Christ and His Spirit 
will be able to love you, all men, 
God the Father in a way that 
wouldn't be possible in 
anyone else.

God utters 
me like 

  a word containing 

 a partial thought 

of Himself.

In a way our

 discovery of God is God’s discovery of 

us. We have no way of knowing where 

heaven is or what it is. He comes down fr heaven and finds us. 

🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸

He looks at us from

 the depths of His own infinite actuality, which is everywhere, and His seeing us gives us a new being and a new mind in which we also discover Him.

Each particular being, in it's individuality 
it's concrete nature and entity with all its own characteristics 🔹🦚🔹🦚🔹🦚🔹🦚🔹

and it's private

qualities. It's own inviolable identity gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here/now in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His 

infinite Art.

                                         🌻🌻🌻   

It's true that God knows Himself in all the things that exist. He sees them, and it is because He sees them that they exist. 

His love in them 

is their goodness. 

The value He sees 

in them is their value. In so far as 

He sees and loves 

them, all things reflect Him.”

God bridges the infinite distances b/t Himself and 

spirits made

to love Him/

supernaturalmissions of His own life.

Dwelling in the depths of all things
in my own depths The Father com-

municates to me His Word and His Spirit.

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A false self. 

This is the man that I want myself to be but who can't exist, because God doesn't know anything about him. 

To be unknown of God is 
 too much privacy.” (poverty)

It is a pity the beautiful Christian metaphor “salvation” has is so
 hackneyed and despised. It's been 
turned into a synonym for“piety”
/not even a truly ethical concept.

Salvation:

 reflects God’s own infinite concern for man

Salvation is
God’s love/care for man’s in-
most being/for all that is His own in man. 

It's not only human nature that's“saved” by divine mercy above all which is myself alone rescued fr immersion in the com-

mon trivial 

sordid con-

fusion. It's 

incommun-    icable /ir-   

replaceable

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One is saved from immersion in the sea of lies and passions..above all saved from 

the abyss of con-fusion/absurdity 
which is our own worldly self.

One is saved from the conformist slave 

of fantasy, passion and convention. 

The creative and mysterious inner self must be delivered from the wasteful, hedonistic and destructive ego that seeks only to cover itself with disguises. 

To be “lost” is to be left to the arbitrariness and pretenses of the contingent ego, the smoke-self that must inevitably vanish....

To be “saved” is to return to one’s inviolate and eternal reality and to live in God.

When the Love of God is in me, God is

 able to love you through me and you 

are able to love God through me.

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God’s love for Himself in you and in me, would be denied the particular expression which it finds through me and through no other if my soul were closed to that love. God’s love for you and your love for God. 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🦚🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹

Shine in my mind, although perhaps this means “be darkness to my experience,” but occupy my heart with Your mercy.  


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Let my eyes see nothing in the

 world but Your glory. Let my hands touch a thing that's not/your service.

 I'll hear Your voice I'll hear all harmonies You've created, singing Your hymns.

Contemplation is also the response to a call from Him who has no voice  yet speaks in all that is. Who, most of all,speaks/the depths of our own being. We ourselves are words of his. 

We are words that are meant to respond to him, answer to him, echo him. Even in some way to contain him and signify him.

Contemplation is an echo, a deep resonance in the inmost center of our spirit. Our inner life loses its separate voice  re-sounds w/ the majesty and  mercy of the Hidden Living One.

He answers himself in us and this answer is divine life, divine creativity, making all things new.

We ourselves become his echo/answer. It's as if in creating us God asked a question.
When we awaken to contemplation he answered the question. The contemplative is at the same time, question and answer.

The life of contemplation implies two levels of awareness. First awareness of 

the question. Second awareness of the answer.Though these are two distinct  enormously different levels yet they 

are in fact an awareness of the same 

thing.The question is, itself, the answer. 

We are both. We can't know this un-til we've moved in-

to the second kind of awareness. We

 awaken, not to find an answer distinct from the question but to realize that the question is its own answer. And all

 is summed up in one awareness /not 

a proposition but an experience: "I AM".”

We do not see God in contemplation - we know Him by love: for his pure love and when we taste the experience of loving God for his own sake alone, we know by experience who and what he is.

God doesn't give his joy to us for our-selves alone. If we could posess him for

 ourselves alone 

we wouldn't pos-

possess him at all.💔🎁

As the history 

of Alcoholics Anonymous so clearly indicates, it was working with others who were still suffering that kept Bill W. and Dr. Bob sober. The same principle is true for all members of 

12 step groups: "to keep it you 

have to give it away."

https://www.verywellmind.com/a-study-of-step-12-69412

🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹We don't see God in contemplation. We know Him by his pure love. When

we have the experience

of loving God for his 

ownsake we know by 

experience who/what he is.

Any joy that doesn't overflow from our souls/helps others to rejoice in God doesn't come to us from God.

Don't think that you've  got to 

see how it over-flows into the 

souls of others.

In the economy of grace you may share

 His gifts w/someone you will never know. 

Give me humility in which alone is rest. Deliver me fr pride which is the heaviest burden. Possess my heart/ soul with the simplicity of love. Occupy my life with the one thought/desire of love. May I not love for the sake of merit, perfection, virtue, sanctity but for You alone. There is only one thing that can satisfy love/reward it. That is You alone.

The contemplative most earnestly wants everybody to share his peace and joy. His contemplation gives him a new outlook on humanity. He looks about him with a secret tranquil surmise which he perhaps admits to no one hoping to find in the faces of others or to hear in their voices some sign of vocation potentiality for deep happiness/wisdom.

He finds himself speaking of God to

 the men in whom he hopes he has 

recognized the light of his own peace. 

The awakening is his own secret. If he can't speak to others he writes for them. His contemplative life is still imperfect 

w/o sharing, companionship, communion.

One can't teach contemplation except

 God, who gives it. The best you can do is 

write something that will serve as an 

occasion for someone else to realize what 

God wants of him.

Hate that takes joy in hating is strong

 bc it doesn't be-

lieve it's alone and

unworthy. It feels the support of a justifying idol of 

war/an avenging destroying God. 

The human race was once liberated from blood-drinking gods w/ great toil sorrow by the death 

of a God Who delivered Himself to the Cross/ suffered the pathological cruelty of His own creatures out of pity for them.

In conquering death He opened their 

eyes to the reality of a love which asks no questions about worthiness, overcoming hatred and destroys death.

One becomes a saint not by conviction that one is better 

than sinners but by the realization 

that one is a sinner.  All together need the mercy of God!”

It's easier to serve hate-gods bc they

  thrive on collective 

fanaticism. To serve

 the hate-gods one has

 only to be blinded by 

 collective passion. To

 serve the God of Love one must be free. One 

must face the terrible responsibility/decision to love in spite of everything whether in oneself or in one’s neighbor.

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A spirit drawn to God in contemplation will soon learn the value of obedience:

 the hardships / 

anguish he has to suffer every day from the burden of his own selfishness, clumsiness, incompetence, and pride will give him a hunger to be led, advised and

Humble realization of our mysterious being as per-sons in whom God dwells, w/ infinite sweetness and inalienable power.”

He's the “Thou” before whom our inmost “I” springs 

into awareness. 
He is the I Am b/f 
whom our most inalienable voice echos 
 “I am.”

this superficial “I” is not our real self. It's our “individuality” / our “empirical self”.  It's not  the hidden and mysterious person in whom we subsist bf the eyes of God.

Common life can

either make one more of a person

 or less of a person.

It depends on whet-her a common life or life in a crowd.

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To live in the midst of others sharing nothing w/ them but the common   noise/the distraction isolates a man 
in the worst way. It separates him fr reality in a way that's almost painless.
It divides him off separates him from other men and from his true self.

God doesn't give us graces, talents, virtues for ourselves alone. We are members one of another and everything that is given to one member is given for the whole body.

Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love

is my name. If I do anything, think, say know anything not purely for the love 

of God it can't give me peace, 

rest, or fulfillment

if He sends His own Love, Himself, to act and love in me and in all I do, then I shall be transformed, I shall discover who I am and shall possess my true identity by losing myself in Him. 

CONTEMPLATION

Is spiritual wonder/  spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life/ being/gratitude for life/awareness of being. It's a vivid 

realization of the fact that life/being  pro-ceed fr an invisible/transcendent/ in-finitely abundant Source/awareness of 
the reality of that Source. W/ a certitude

that goes beyond inexplicability/

reason/faith it knows the source. 

Contemplation is

 spiritual vision which reason/faith

aspire by their nature b/c without it they must always remain incomplete.

contemplation

 isn't  vision b/c 

it sees “without seeing” and knows “without knowing.

CONTEMPLATION   it's knowledge too 

deep to be grasped
in images, words or even in clear concepts

It can be suggested by words/symbols. In the moment of trying to indicate what it knows the contemplative mind takes back what it has said/ denies what it's affirmed. 

In contemplating one knows by “unknowing.” One knows beyond all knowing or “unknowing.”

To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the door 

to a higher life. It's death for the sake of

 life which leaves behind all we 

know or treasure as life, joy, thought, ex- perience, as being.”

the first  step to-ward peace would be a realistic accep-tance of the fact our
political ideals are
to a great extent illusions and fictions. We 
prevent ourselves from seeing any good or practicability in the political ideals of our enemies which may be even more illusory and dishonest than our own.”

Go into the 

desert not to escape other 

men but in

order to find 

them in God.”

It's not humility 

to insist on being someone that you aren't. It's as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who

you ought to be.

MANY poets aren't 

poets for the same reason  many religious men aren't saints: they never succeed in being themselves.

Hatred is the sign/ the expression of loneliness, unworthiness, insuf-ficiency. In so far as each one of us is lonely, un-worthy, each one hates himself. Some of us are aware of this self-hatred. Because of it we reproach ourselves punish/ourselves needlessly.” (&/or find a scapegoat to protect our self hatred on).

THE THEOLOGY OF THE DEVIL 

is a psychological, subjec-tive “force”. It  applies a 

 kind of violence to reality in order to change it ac-cording to one’s whims.

Faith is a kind of super-effective wishing: a my-stery that comes from a mysteriously dynamic will power generated by “pro-found convictions.” By virtue of this won-derful energy one can exert a persuasive force even on God Himself / bend His will to one’s own will. By this astounding new dynamic soul force of faith (which any quack can develop in you for an 

appropriate remuneration)

you can turn God into a means to your own ends. We bc civilized medicine

 men. God becomes our servant.

the devil’s moral theology is the ex-aggeration of all distinctions b/t this and that, good and evil, right and wrong. These distinctions become irreducible divisions.

whatever is demanded truth,

 justice, mercy, or by

love must surely be 

taken to be willed by God.

To consent to His will is to consent to be true, or to speak truth, or at least to seek it. To obey Him is to respond to 
His will expressed in the need of an-

other person, or at least to 

respect the rights of others.

In demanding I re-spect the rights of another God isn't  asking me to con-form to some ab-stract, arbitrary law. He's enabling me to share in His care for my brother.

No man who ignores the 

rights and needs of others
 can hope to walk in the 
light of contemplation.
Bc his way has turned aside from truth,  com-passion and  fr God.

The false my-sticism of the Mass Society captivates men who are so al-ienated from themselves and God  they are  incapable of genuine spiritual experience. These er-satz forms of enthusiasm that are “opium” for the people/deadening their awareness of their deepest and personal needs, alien-ating them from their true selves, putting conscience and personality to sleep. Turn-ing free, reasonable men into passive in-struments of the power politician.

false “faith” which is what we often live by and we even con-fuse w/ our relig-ion” is subjected to inexorable ques-tioning. Torment of this kind is a trial by fire. We are compelled, by the very light of invisible truth which has reached us in the dark ray of contemplation, to examine, to doubt and finally to reject all the  preju-dices and conventions we have accepted as if they were dogmas. Hence it's clear 

Real conemplation is incompatible w/ complacency 

and smug accep-tance of prejud

-iced opinions. 

It's not passive acquiescence in 

the status  quo. 

This would re-duce it to spiritual anesthesia.

Contemplation isn't a painkiller