The Cloud of Unknowing
To contemplate is to receive. Sit quietly in reflection. Make way for knowing. Knowledge comes upon you in the still silence of the room within. Sit in the still silence of darkness with nothing between you and your true nature. Let your full knowledge be revealed so that you come to know I AM.
Turn from the world. Enter the room within. Do nothing. Sit in the still silence of darkness. This is not idleness. You do not need to move about to be at work. Your work is within. Your work is to hear and know. To know is to change from ignorance and fear to wisdom and joy. Wisdom and joy know no end. They have no opposite. Wisdom and joy are your true nature. Ignorance and fear cause suffering.
Put from your mind all that you think you know. You do not know. Be humble in your understanding. Put forth love as best you can, for it is tainted with fear of loss and regret. You do not wish to lose what you fear you do not have. You regret extending what gets rejected. Fear is of the world. Worldly love is limited by desire and expectation. To love without fear is joy. Let joy be your constant companion.
To reach out in joy, go within. Joy is not of the world. Joy is your true nature. Enter the room within. Do nothing. You cannot find joy. Joy reveals itself to those who do nothing. Do not seek pleasure and happiness. Do not look for relief from pain and sorrow. Be in the moment with twia. Twia knows the way. Put this and that from your mind. Sit in the still silence of the room within. Joy will come to you as the light in darkness. Then you will know what cannot be said. You will know love without fear.