luke on Contemplation

It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so that the contemplative is at the same time, question and answer.

Contemplation is also the response to a call: a call from Him Who has no voice, and yet Who speaks in everything that is, and Who, most of all, speaks in the depths of our own being: for we ourselves ...

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.