Contemplation and Spiritual Happiness

A Selection from Fragments of Contemplation: Catching Spiritual News on the Run, by Kenneth Rose

Contemplation is complete openness to the utterly open presence of the divine. When we open ourselves to the divine presence, a subtle ability to contemplate develops within us and guides us continually. Contemplation isn’t limited to fixed patterns of words, schedules, or bodily postures. It’s not a technique that can be mastered merely by reading or writing about it. Only contemplation can create contemplation. The living reality of the divine presence comes into our life through contemplation to the degree that contemplation becomes a part of our life. Contemplation does not replace the difficulties of life with an always pleasant inner world of spiritual emotions. Nor does it relieve us of the obligations that shape our life. But contemplation does illumine us and strengthen us as we live our days, the good, the difficult, and the tedious.

A fruit of contemplation is the inflowing into the heart and mind of profound peace, which is a direct indicator of the divine presence, which appears in the depths of the heart and mind like a clear, quiet pool. Sometimes an impulse toward compassion or a helping intuition will emerge from the gleaming body of the divine presence. But most often we experience it as an unbounded openness that pours out from the root of the heart and mind. Bathed by this spiritual liquid, we feel buoyant, lighter than air, free of grief, necessity, and tragedy. Death dissolves. Fears dissipate. Our body feels like a slight tugging at the air, like a thin outline, separating golden energy from golden energy. The divine presence, not dramatically, but essentially, is all in all.

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