“Silence like the sunlight will illuminate you in God
and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance.”
(Thomas Merton)
Love is the animate silence in contemplative prayer. It helps us to honor, accept, and submit to God within us, and we begin to see Him in everyone as well. Consequently, we cease judging and start loving unconditionally. Furthermore, our realization and conviction deepen over time.
Those still in slumber struggle with accepting that God dwells within them or others. Lacking acceptance and forgiveness their fragmented mind invariably creates antagonism, fear, and resistance.
Love heals us of the fragmentation that is evident in the world. Instead of hating, excluding, or dismissing it in others, we are healed of it in ourselves. This healing, God’s Spirit working in us, allows us to have immense sympathy, empathy, and compassion, and be of service to the world’s healing.
Galatians 5:18 “But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”
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