I also want to make this clear. In the contemplative work…

““I also want to make this clear. In the contemplative work I’m describing, you don’t need to scrutinize the infinite characteristics of God any more than your own complicated nature. No name, no emotion, no thought is more like the everlasting nature of God than the experience you have, see, and feel in the blind and loving observation of the word is. Call God what you like: Good or gentle Lord; sweet, merciful, or righteous; wise or all-knowing; mighty or omnipotent; learning or wisdom; courage or strength; love or charity, or anything else, and you’ll find that all of these are hidden and included in this little word, is. God’s very essence is each of these and all of them together and also any other descriptions you could choose for him.3 You could add 100,000 similar loving words for God to this list, as many as you want, but altogether they’re not as good as is.4 If you say them all, you don’t add to is, and if you say none of them, you take nothing from is. So be as simple in your loving contemplation of God’s being as you are in the naked contemplation of your own self. Don’t analyze his being or yours. Let go of thinking, push it from you, and worship God with all that you are, as you are, embracing him as he is, for himself only, nothing more, because the happy essence both of God and of you is God.””

— Carmen Acevedo Butcher