True contemplation is not a psychological trick

but a theological grace.

It can come to us only as a gift,

and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

~Thomas Merton

when it’s simply about bearing witness….

inquiry for today~ may you too, have the strength to feel….

when you feel closer in

Seek not the paths of the ancients,

seek that which the ancients sought.

~Basho