Contemplative practice allows us to awaken this inner knowing, also known

as wisdom. Thomas Merton names it Sophia, the feminine name for divine

wisdom according to the Judeo Christian tradition. In his soul stirring

writing on Sophia, he names wisdom as an “invisible fecundity” flowing from

the depths of the divine: “I am awakened, I am born again at the voice of

this, my Sister, sent to me from the depths of the divine fecundity.”