Contemplation is the conscious, experiential awareness of the mission of the Son and of the Spirit, a reception of the Word Who is sent to us not only as life but also as light. But the full knowledge of the Word “sent” to us and “received” in us is subjective rather than objective. We know Him as the “other,” as the divine “Thou” to Whom we turn the whole being of our spirit, and yet He is “in us” and is intimately united to our own inmost “I,” so that He is more truly our self than we are.
