The deeper role of contemplation is to allow us to come face-to-face with this universal fear that all human beings experience. This is the role of pivoting,

Essentially, we begin our contemplation by focusing our awareness on something. If we are contemplating a challenge, then we focus on the resolution of the challenge. We hold that goal for as long as we can and when our awareness drifts away, we simply keep bringing it gently back again.

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.

People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtere