The result of contemplative sight is what I would like to call “beautiful” morality, and the lack of it is why so many of us dislike and mistrust so many supposedly “moral” people. Let me explain. To do a highly moral thing, such as caring for the earth, but with the wrong energy (in an angry, pushy, or know-it-all way), is a kind of ugly morality and not the “aroma” and “incense” of Christ (2 Corinthians 2:14–15). It is formally right, but somehow terribly wrong, and we sense it. Perhaps that is why so many religious and formally moral people do not seem attractive or happy to us.
