{"id":17587,"date":"2018-12-11T09:13:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17587"},"modified":"2018-12-11T09:19:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:19:51","slug":"contemplation-week-1-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17587","title":{"rendered":"Contemplation: Week 1; Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contemplation: Week 1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Relationship<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tuesday, December 11, 2018<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Vbg2dpX-EY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe contemplative potential . . . is the capacity to gradually unfold into intimacy with God. God is relationship: a relationship that has no end and unlimited possibilities. \u2014Thomas Keating [1]<br \/>\nChristian contemplation is never simply meditation on something but is necessarily the deepening of relationship with Someone. \u2014Vincent Pizzuto [2]<br \/>\nGod is Being itself, but also a Being that is more me than I am myself. This changes everything. God has become a Thou, and not just an energy field. And I have become an I, and not just a statistic.<br \/>\nThe spiritual path is relationship itself, not just practice, discipline, or holy posture. Authentic contemplation of the Other, through all the necessary stages of personal relationship, calls us beyond our tiny and false selves and into The Ultimate Self.<br \/>\nWe become the One we gaze upon. \u201cThe eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me: my eye and God\u2019s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, and one love,\u201d as Meister Eckhart says. [3] This reciprocal gaze is the True Self, perfectly given and always waiting to be perfectly received. It is so dear and so precious that it needs no external payoffs whatsoever. The True Self is abundantly content.<br \/>\nContemporary theologian Beverly Lanzetta writes:<br \/>\nIn nondual contemplation, the person\u2019s being radiates the nirvanic, liberating state we think of as enlightenment. The soul becomes a source and fount of healing, wisdom, and transformation. Why? Our being and the divine being are consummated in such a way that the entire soul becomes a window into the holy. Contemplation is not something we do. It is a free gift of the spirit; all we can do is surrender and \u201clet go.\u201d Every excursion into openness is a flooding in of the true self, remembering that the Divine is already within, waiting. [4]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemplation: Week 1 Relationship Tuesday, December 11, 2018 The contemplative potential . . . is the capacity to gradually unfold into intimacy with God. God is relationship: a relationship that has no end and unlimited possibilities. \u2014Thomas Keating [1] Christian contemplation is never simply meditation on something but is necessarily the deepening of relationship with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17589,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17587\/revisions\/17589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}