Pause

Nowadays we seem to have lost the old habit of contemplation. That is why it is so hard for us to pause. We live in a world in which it is frowned upon not to be productive, yet taking care of our wellbeing requires spaces to stop and observe and endure the emptiness.

When the mind quiets down, the world reorganizes itself. In those moments the universe ceases to be fragmented and we feel a true connection with the whole. Contemplation is an agreement, a deep understanding in which the moment, the person and the world meet and merge intimately.

Contemplation also requires the courage to come face to face with our deepest truths, those that unleash fears and desires that we have been silencing with the noise of activity, over-stimulation, constant change, inner dialogue, empty conversations, and a whole murmur of voices whose only mission is to keep us from listening to ourselves and observing ourselves in depth.

Contemplation implies stopping the ego for a moment. Contemplating opens an opportunity to empty ourselves and when the mind and heart are totally empty one can understand, one can live. To be totally empty is the highest form of intelligence, it is the highest form of love.

Man only escapes the laws of this world for the space of a spark. Moments of detention, of contemplation, of pure intuition, of mental emptiness, of acceptance of moral emptiness. In such moments he is capable of the supernatural.

"To love the truth means to endure emptiness".
Simone Weil