The Contemplative Life Blog
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The Contemplative Life is a website and blog devoted to exploring modern contemplative spirituality in all of its diverse forms. You can read beautiful poems and articles written by the author that will give you peace of mind.
The Contemplative Life Blog
1M ago
I am enduring a tension
within myself
awaiting and longing for
the birth of
something new
–
I am embracing all parts
the light and the dark
I see more now
Yet I am blind to
what is still to be
–
I am drinking from
solitude
Soul arises from within
I trust the waiting ..read more
The Contemplative Life Blog
1M ago
Untie this knot within me
Shadow and Soul swallow me whole
Reveal to me what true is
In the untying of the knot within me
Make me whole ..read more
The Contemplative Life Blog
2M ago
The greatest gift
To give yourself
In spite of all
In all
Through all
Is
Acceptance
What you long for outside
You must offer yourself from within
Acceptance
Space
Embrace
The whole of yourself ..read more
The Contemplative Life Blog
5M ago
I open myself to
trust You
The Divine
which is within me
At the core is
Your goodness
which is also mine ..read more
The Contemplative Life Blog
8M ago
Dear friend,
It could be that you are experiencing one of the most difficult things one can experience on their life’s journey, precisely that the entire bedrock is faltering and perhaps falling? Perhaps you experience a weightless state without fixed points of reference? This is not an easy weightlessness, because experiencing the ground beneath you giving way can be very frightening and painful. It is comforting to know that this is not abnormal, no matter how frightening it seems. It could be that you are experiencing the dark night of the soul, where nothing gives meaning or nourishment o ..read more
The Contemplative Life Blog
8M ago
Rejection
I lost myself then
It was your look that took it
Joy of being me
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Forgiveness
I forgive you now
Then I forgive myself too
No defense needed
–
Summer River
Summer river flow
It is the divine life now
I open myself ..read more
The Contemplative Life Blog
9M ago
Not to being able to truly love and accept others in their imperfect and beautiful state is hugely connected to not loving ourselves. The rejection of others is actually a rejection of yourself. Seeing your own darkness, even evil, is surprisingly freeing. When you truly see “it all”, and you contemplate your dark side, you find there is nothing to defend anymore. This is also when you see that you need forgiveness, and to forgive yourself and love yourself in spite of some evil tendencies lurking within.
Even so, I am still wondering whether the evil in us can be pure evil per se, or if it’s ..read more
The Contemplative Life Blog
9M ago
I have been thinking about dying lately. Then I mean not so much the physical death but the death of ego. In my own ego I find a lot of good things and also bad things. I believe partly the reasons for these nuances are that the good experiences I have had, yet also the wounds I carry with me from my upbringing have formed my ego and personality. Some of these bad experiences in my upbringing and life from younger days, have been more or less traumatic and therefore they have also formed my ego very strongly.
I realise when I react strongly towards what people say or do in relation to me or o ..read more
The Contemplative Life Blog
10M ago
He is sitting in the deep forest
Looking at three big bookcases reaching towards the sky
Suddenly the left bookcase starts trembling
Then it crashes head down into the forest’s floor making the other cases also fall
He has escaped to this hill nearby
Just in time before great waves of water flood the place
The great bookcases are lost in the water
Only he escaped it together with her
As they are standing there on this hill above the water
The water rises and then suddenly currents overcome him
She is standing there as a pillar at the top of the hill
Not taken by the tumultuous waters
The curr ..read more
The Contemplative Life Blog
10M ago
A wise man said, where your heart is, that’s where your treasure is. Ponder those words today. Think about, where is your heart? Where is your fear? Where is your joy? Even, who are you, really, deepest within?
Carl Jung said, where your fear is that’s where your task is. I believe sometimes our fear, our joy and our heart’s yearnings are closely knit together.
I remeber as a teenanger I was thinking deeply about the nature of man’s and my own heart. I asked myself, am I good or am I evil, deepest within. It was a difficult and painful question to ask. Especially when there were no wise guide ..read more