Not Thinking

"There is something in you that is not touched by coming and going, by up and down, by for or against, by the raucous teams of totally right or totally wrong. There is a part of you that is patient with both goodness and evil to gradually show themselves, exactly as God does. There is a part of you that does not rush to judgment. Rather, it stands vigilant and patient in the tragic gap that almost every moment offers. 

 It is a riverbed of mercy. It is vast, silent, restful, and resourceful, and it receives and also lets go of all the comings and goings. It is awareness itself, and awareness is not as such "thinking." It refuses to be pulled into the emotional and mental tugs of war that most of life is -- before it is forever over and gone. 

To look out from this untouchable silence is what we mean by contemplation...This is your soul. It is God-in-you. This is your True Self."

~Richard Rohr, from Immortal Diamond ~