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Usage examples of ourselves.

For, as you have no doubt discovered, the further we travel along the self-transforming path of meditation, the more we realize ourselves to be immersed in beginnings that never end.

In passing from ego consciousness to meditative states of awareness, we are awakened to that eternal oneness with God that is the very reality of ourselves and of everyone and everything around us.

It is with regard to the active aspect of contemplation or contemplative prayer that the Christian tradition suggests methods or guidelines for freely opening ourselves to and actively sustaining states of receptive openness to God.

In the traditional Christian sources we will be exploring here, these methods include ways of detaching ourselves from our customary reliance on thoughts, memories, and other aspects of ego consciousness that tend to block the subtle, wholly spiritual contemplative states of realized oneness with God.

As used in this latter sense, Christian meditation includes both the act of inviting and opening ourselves to a graced realization of oneness with God and the mystical fulfillment received in this active seeking.

Blake is putting into words what we ourselves have come to experience.

In meditation we imitate Christ by abandoning ourselves to the providential flow of such simple and concrete things as the sound of children who happen to playing outside the window.

We abandon ourselves to the utterly trustworthy providential flow of the room in which we sit as it darkens at sunset.

In this way we begin to sense how meditation renders our heart ever more sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others.

Our compassion in pacing ourselves as we go along is an important aspect of learning to give ourselves, in our own unique way, to God, who eternally gives herself to us.

And so it is that such a simple act as lighting a candle or bowing in silence before an image of Christ can embody the mystery of yielding ourselves to ever deeper realizations of oneness with God.

When we are sincerely open to this new center of gravity within ourselves, the simplest of acts embodies that which cannot be explained.

It is in the midst of this poetic imagery of passing through the door into God that we find ourselves in the living essence of Christian faith.

And it is here, too, that we find ourselves in the midst of the living essence of Christian meditation as a way of intimately realizing the eternal oneness with God that Christ came to proclaim.

Or we might find ourselves being interiorly drawn to painting or to reading or writing poetry or listening to certain kinds of music.