"Contemplation becomes a way of life. I don’t like to think of it so much as something I do, but something I am; so I often use the phrase “the contemplative stance.” It’s a way of living, moving, and being in this world. The very word means “to see.”
"I fully admit that we don’t live all of our twenty-four hours there. The world keeps pulling us back into our false and small self. “Put on this hat. Attach to this identity. Take on this hurt. Put on this self-importance,” we say to ourselves. It’s all right as long as we know how to take it back off again, and rather quickly, if possible. “Who was I before I was hurt?” is your original face, your true identity in God, your own “immaculate conception.” We must all crawl our way back to such innocence and such freedom."
- Fr. Richard Rohr OFM, Adapted from Contemplative Prayer (CD)
Quotes like this are the reason I haven't written anything substantial about contemplative prayer. How could I possibly say it better?
There is no trick to it. As a famous ad says, "Just do it." Every day. Whether you like it or not. Whether it "works" or not. Whether you "feel" anything or not. That's the only way to get to the contemplative way of life.
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