The Purpose of Contemplation

This indeed is the purpose of contemplation — to find connections, to build bridges and to come to realise that everything in life is connected to everything else.

As your contemplation deepens, it is likely that you will enter into a period of emotional transformation as you identify and root out old emotional patterns that no longer serve you.

Far from lulling the reasoning mind into some dull blankness, contemplative practice sharpens reason and engenders all manner of creativity. So there is no cause for concern here. The bottom line is this: minimize time given over to chasing thoughts, dramatizing them in grand videos, and believing these videos to be your identity. Otherwise life wi

contemplative prayer involves the discipline of overcoming, at once, both frantic despair and empty euphoria, as well as a long training in the kind of discernment that allows one to distinguish between true spiritual experience and mere paroxysms of sentiment.