Mixing the Tasks

Contemplation and Action Have Always Gone Together

Mix the tasks of active life with the spiritual labours of the contemplative life, and then you will do well. — Walter Hilton

Walter Hilton was born in the 1340s and died in 1396, making him a contemporary of Julian of Norwich and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing. I like to think of him as the “George Harrison” of the contemplative life. If you’re a …