Contemplative Waiting

The contemplative stance is to wait for a moment of vision that is not yet there.  A contemplative needs to have a patient gaze.  They do not impose themselves in their seeing.   The contemplative is receptive.  They allow things to be, but with discipline, attention and an open welcome.  It is a stance of wonder.  Methods and postures are simply to help us stay out of the way.  Stay out of directing the contemplative time.  The Jesuit William Lynch, a good Irishman opened me to this.