“And that to me is the healthy heart of contemplation (a.k.a. meditation). It’s an allowing. It’s a participation in the living truth that’s always already here, before we even have thoughts or names for it. And it’s embrace with that. It’s a participation with that, and in that, and as that. Contemplation is allowing an embrace from a more original state of affairs, an always already there naturalness. A matter-of-fact wonder of life as it is, ‘before’ we have a technique or an idea about things.”
— Prof. Michael Sheehy