How to Contemplate, conclusion:
In summary, here are the keys to contemplation.
• When you contemplate the written word, read slowly and repeatedly with long silent pauses.
• Toss out your beliefs, preferences and all prior knowledge as you enter the sacred ground of contemplation.
• Listen or feel inwardly for some stirring that might be the birth of insight.
• Be like an explorer and follow what comes to see where it goes.
• Use inquiry to invite wisdom. Even “What does this mean for me?” can invite powerful personal insights.
• Reserve judgment and let the value of the contemplative experience reveal itself in its own time.
• Receive your daily bread with gratitude no matter how simple it may appear to be. Review it and practice it throughout the day. It is a step on your own personal stairway to heaven.
Regina’s Personal Contemplation of Lesson 120:
I rest in God. I rest in God and truth reestablishes itself in my mind. The gift I give is rest, rest from the overactive maze of thought, rest in the stillness of presence, openness and trust. The gift I receive is truth realization.
I am as God created me. What am I? What is changeless? What is always here? What is looking?
