Thomas Keating Quotes

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• God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

  Thomas Keating

  Silence, Firsts, Language

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• We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.

  Thomas Keating

  Fashion, Thinking, Air

  Thomas Keating (2002). “Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel”, p.44, A&C Black

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• St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Prayer, Growing Up

  Thomas Keating (2014). “Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit”, p.5, Lantern Books

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• If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

  Thomas Keating

  Heart, Journey, Oneself

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• We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being.

  Thomas Keating

  Past, Love Is, Light

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• God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

  Thomas Keating

  Thinking, People, Events

  Thomas Keating (1997). “Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer”, p.52, A&C Black

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• The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.

  Thomas Keating

  Chiefs

  Thomas Keating (2002). “Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel”, p.44, A&C Black

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• To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.

  Thomas Keating

  Practice, Lifetime

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

  Thomas Keating

  Prayer, Powerful, Helping

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• Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

  Thomas Keating

  Silence, Language, Difficult

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• The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.

  Thomas Keating

  Lying, People, Events

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• For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

  Thomas Keating

  Challenges, Divine, Humans

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• The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

  Thomas Keating

  Acceptance, Giving, Let It Go

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• Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.

  Thomas Keating

  Names, Self, Childhood

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• You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.

  Thomas Keating

  Prayer, Play, Looks

  Thomas Keating (2002). “Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel”, p.61, A&C Black

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• The root of prayer is interior silence.

  Thomas Keating

  Prayer, Roots, Silence

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• What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.

  Thomas Keating

  Falling In Love, Obstacles, God Love

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Journey, Birth

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• The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like sacred reading, spiritual guidance, moderation in eating, drinking and sexual expression, and above all, trying to be aware of the presence of God in other people and in everyday life.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Reading, Drinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

  Thomas Keating

  Letting Go, Prayer, Training

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• In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.

  Thomas Keating

  Deep Love, Two Friends, Silence

  Thomas Keating (2012). “The Thomas Keating Reader: Selected Writings from the Contemplative Outreach Newsletter”, p.42, Lantern Books

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• Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.

  Thomas Keating

  Self, Way, Events

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.

  Thomas Keating

  Thinking, Self, Childhood

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• To become who we are as creatures made in the image and likeness of God, we have to be nothing and everything at once, since this is what God is. ... If we accept who we are, we are manifesting God and radiating Christ. The latter unfolding of the divine life within us does not need to go anywhere
  or do anything special.

  Thomas Keating

  Special, Doe, Needs

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• Union with God is really possible. Unity with God I presume, is what is meant by Heaven, but that too is available in this life for the humble of heart.

  Thomas Keating

  Heart, Humble, Heaven

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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