Education

 Education, schooling, including higher education was supposed to include the contemplative life.  Why?  Because education was to be all about learning.  Some things we can learn with the mind, but some things, some wisdom, is beyond the mind.  Contemplation is the learning of wisdom that the mind cannot grasp.  But when the medieval church became more concerned about dogma and being correct in mind knowledge, the contemplative began to be de emphasized.  Then came the scientific Age of Enlightenment in which all knowledge had to be proven to the mind, the intellect.  So whenever you say, “I have no time to meditate,” because you have so much else to learn, you are really shortchanging yourself.  Practice daily.  Get an “A”