There are two working components to the path, one is Contemplation, and the other is Meditation. It isn’t an issue on where your path originates from, or how winding (the straighter the better) the path is provided it’s headed towards Mecca (liberation). Whatever technique you use or direction you come from, either one or both of these components is a must to bring about the effortless surrendering that is needed. Both are recommended for the serious seeker. Whether you come from the way of the Worshiper or the Soul Searcher (and there are countless variations of both), the path is full of obstacles, so a strong determination, persistence, and work ethic is needed. It has to get to a point where all you are doing and thinking, besides the usual functioning in the world, is contemplating spiritual thoughts and meditating. The path is the work it takes you to get to your destination, or to the point where you are effortlessly doing it all the time out of habit. Much like learning a sport so well, that it just happens naturally without thinking, but on the path it means your doing a different type of sport all your spare waking hours. When you're actually doing it in your dreams out of habit, means you're on the right track.

When you are negating your ego, mind, appearances, and the world by looking away you're essentially forcing something to happen that is beyond it. You absolutely refuse to take note of anything credible to change your direction from going in and finding out, and that is the way of the Soul searcher. Similar to the worshiper the Soul searcher is also the God searcher, because in seeing his Self he sees the Almighty, and in seeing the Almighty he sees his Self. Worshiping is actually more external, but it's still going away from the mind and ego resulting in a surrendering to that, which it worships. Again it has to be in combination with another component (s) because you need to be actively pursuing it wherever you are, whatever you're doing, and whatever time it is. All the short and long pauses you have alone, you meditate, and all the in-between times you contemplate things like: There has to be more than this, more than doing the same thing over and over again, is there no meaning, I must be more than this changing form, if I am Eternal than what am I? You're changing your internal dialog by superimposing spiritual ones over the idol and useless chatter. The attitude is that nothing is going to get in the way of you and your path, including the ego and outside knowledge. The mind and its inclinations are on patrol by your attention, which means you are prior to the attention. The real you is the one that directs the attention, and by retracting it, your attention is focused in the opposite direction, which is your Soul. Surrendering is an internal letting go of everything you ever held sacred including your attention, and want nothing in return, except the truth. Gently you sit, still and empty, at the door of your eternal home, and you wait patiently for that door to open.