Awareness Of The Reality

Contemplation is the highest expression of man's intellectual and spiritual life.
It is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive.
It is spiritual wonder.
It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being.
It is gratitude for life, for awareness and for being.
It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent and infinitely abundant Source.
--Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

Contemplation is above all, awareness of the reality of that that Source.
-- Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation


We cannot change the directions of the wind, but we can adjust our sails.
Have a beautiful day unless you plan otherwise.