Giving forth positive energy in the name of blessing instead of giving forth negative energy in the form of cursing is forgiveness.
~ Don Roth
To live a contemplative life is to be open enough to see, free enough to hear, real enough to respond. It is a life, and so it has its own rhythms of darkness, of dying-rising. Simply enough, it is a live of grateful receptivity, or wordless awe, of silent simplicity.