In point of fact, too ardent a desire for contemplation can be an obstacle to contemplation, because it may proceed from delusion and attachment to one’s self. The very desire for contemplation may be a dense, opaque, heavy thing that fills our emptiness, enslaves us to the idol of our exterior self, and binds us, like blind Samson, to the mill of vain hopes and illusory desires.
Is contemplation in this context interchangeable with “wisdom”?
