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  • aptitudeforemptine
  • Jun 27, 2021
  • 1 min read

This experiential awareness is really most simple, although it needs to be approached with a qualified integrity.


Contemplative experience is most real, but elusive and hard to define.


- Thomas Merton


In passive contemplation there is who we are, stripped bare of ourselves, and there is God. And there is an indescribable element that transcends what we commonly talk about when we speak of what and how we know.

 
 
 

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