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Calm reflection and introspection allow information to become integrated, correlated, and recontextualized.  Thus, a contemplative state is more relaxed, open, spontaneous, and intuitive than goal-directed activities.  Contemplation allows inferences and general principles to formulate spontaneously because it facilitates discernment of essence rather than the specifics of linear logic.  A benefit of contemplative comprehension is revelation of meaning and significance.

Whereas meditation generally involves removal from the world and its activities, contemplation is a simple style of relating to both inner and outer experiences of life, which permits participation but in a detached manner.  Intentional doingness is focused on result, whereas contemplation is related to effortless unfolding.  One could say purposeful thinking is quite ‘yang’ in character, whereas contemplation is very ‘yin’.  It facilitates the surrender and letting go of attractions, aversions, and all forms of wantingness or neediness.

From Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man, Ch. 15, pg. 291-292

A useful decision or choice is to decide to stop mentally talking about everything and refrain from interjecting comments, opinions, preferences, and value statements. It is therefore a discipline to just watch without evaluating, investing worth in, or editorializing, commenting, and having preferences about what is witnessed. … All thinking, from a spiritual viewpoint, is merely vanity, illusion… The less one thinks, the more delightful life becomes. Thinkingness eventually becomes replaced by knowingness.

From  Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality, p. 88-89.

Surrender your addiction to experience. Surrender your desire and craving to experience experience. That’s the fastest way to enlightenment.

You feel the energy of experiencing coming up, and you nip it in the bud. You reach a point where you’re no longer experiencing experience. That is the state of bliss.

Let go of your identification and your attachments to the linear domain. You will then come into the presence of the Buddha nature.

You are not at the effect of anything ‘out there’. You’re doing a solo dance within yourself—for what you can juice out of it.

If you do nothing but lay back, then the grace of God reveals all to you—effortlessly. There is nothing to seek, nothing to gain, nothing to get, and nothing to experience.

Paraphrased from God vs. Science: Limits of the Mind DVD

Q: What sacrifice is required?

A: The major step is the realization that there is a source of joy and happiness that is outside and beyond the ego.  Then arise curiosity and an interest in how to reach spiritual goals.  Belief arises that is then bolstered by faith and eventually by experience.  Next follows acquisition of instruction, information, and the practice of what has been learned.  By invitation, the spiritual energy increases, followed by dedication and the willingness to surrender all obstacles.  Even the decision to turn one’s life over to God brings joy and gives life a whole new meaning.  It becomes uplifting, and the greater context gives life more significance and reward.  One eventually becomes unwilling to support negativity, within or without.  This is not because it is wrong but merely futile.  Although the journey to God begins with failure and doubt, it progresses into certainty.  The way is really quite simple.

From I: Reality and Subjectivity, Ch. 18, pg.421-422