What is Contemplation?

It's Hard to Put a Wordless Spiritual Practice Into Words

What is contemplation? Unfortunately, answering this question is tricky — forcontemplation is like some other words in the English language, such asloveorsuccessorhappiness. In other words, different people use it to mean different things.

Recently areader named Daniel sent me this message:

I’ve been gradually learning about contemplative spiritualityfor a couple of years now. Throughout this journey I’ve continually wondered how “con...