For the most part, reading - good reading - is far more important than writing. Likewise, thinking - meditation - is far more important than speaking - which is one reason why they say silence is golden.
I think there are very few real contemplatives outside of monasteries and hermitages. That said, I do think there may be many, many, spiritual/religious/devout/prayerful people who have experienced contemplative graces. Some of these good people have from time to time believed themselves to be contemplatives already, because of a particular signal grace, or the delight they find in spiritual things. Presumption is sly as a fox.
What does that mean? Many of us can mistake our so-called spiritual insights to be important.
One cannot turn straw into gold.
That's all.
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This morning at Mass I was thinking of the gift of contemplation, and of my upcoming retreat at a trappist abbey where I hope to enter more fully into prayer.
I was thinking that it is almost impossible to have a contemplative prayer life while in the noise of the world.
I wish I could become a hermit, and I always pray that that would be God's will for me, but so far it has not been.
Peace
I question anyone that says, "I'm a contemplative." Smacks of someone saying, "oh I'm so humble." I don't get it.
With all humility I want to suggest the spiritual insights share on my blog luminousmiseries and the least of anyone's on the enter Internet. They are unworthy chaff and should be avoided here
I further want to share[d] that typeos [are] keep me humbler still
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