How contemplation looks like

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The contemplatives traditionally
practiced by sitting in silence.

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Silence gives us the ability

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and increased
capacity to have that,

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it's basically inner observation.

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And by observation
I don't mean reflection.

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Reflection is a cognitive process.

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Self observation is just a stance
of nonjudgment and presence.

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So just being present

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and watching
what is without judgment.

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And of course that's
very difficult for humans

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because we are always
labeling things good and bad

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all day long:
I like this, I don't like this.

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I like that, I don't like that.

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So it's this standing aside
from the kind of labelling

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and judging of things to just
merely be present to it.

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And in that presence

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we build our inner capacity to be
in connection with divine.

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And it's a way of engaging

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what Richard Rohr would
say is our true self,

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our divinely connected self

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which is something that
we don't always perceive

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unless we take the time
to sit in silence.

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And in deep
nonjudgmental presence

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to then be able to begin to feel it
and to be aware of it.