Blind Awareness

 Part of active contemplation is “blind awareness.”  Ultimate Reality, what I call God, cannot be seen or thought, but can be experienced at a depth of spirit.  As the Cloud of Unknowing says, don’t think about yourself, don’t self-analyze, just note that you are.  You are sitting with your eyes closed, neither trying to analyze you or Ultimate Reality.  You are not trying to know anything, but rather to sense or become aware that you are not alone.  You cannot identify this Other Presence that seems so close and yet so safe and soothing.  The hard part is to stop focusing or thinking about you and the world in elation to you.  All methods are to help us to get out of our own way.  That is why the road is called, Narrow.  There is not room for you and this divine at the same time.  You wait.  The Power, Love, comes to you.