I think the contemplative mind is the most absolute assault on the secular or rational worldview, because it really is a different mind—a different point of view.

The mind that I call the "small self” or the "false self” reads everything in terms of personal advantage, short-term effort, “What's in it for me?”—and “How will I look?”, “How will I look good?” As long as you read reality from the reference point of the small self of “how I personally feel” or “what I need or want,” you cannot get very far. The lens never opens up.

Thus the great religions have taught that we need to change the seer much more than just telling people what to see—that is contemplation.