Latest Thomas Keating Quotes from Interviews

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• Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.

  Thomas Keating

  Life Is, Divine, Divine Life

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

  Thomas Keating

  Humanity, Brain, Needs

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best of the human potential as it evolves, but participation in the divine life itself.

  Thomas Keating

  Christian, Perspective, God Love

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

  Thomas Keating

  Animal, Helping, Consciousness

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.

  Thomas Keating

  Becoming, Enough, Possibility

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• 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

• For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.

  Thomas Keating

  Animal, Support, Brain

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• 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

• Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

  Thomas Keating

  World, Maps, Change For The Better

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.

  Thomas Keating

  Sublime, Psychologist, Psychiatrist

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• 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

• As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the divine therapy.

  Thomas Keating

  Book, Healing, Years

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.

  Thomas Keating

  Buddhism, Important, Different

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

  Thomas Keating

  Mean, People, Tradition

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Mean, Tradition

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• 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

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

  Thomas Keating

  Practice, Lifetime

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.

  Thomas Keating

  Discovery, Essentials, Our Time

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.

  Thomas Keating

  Practice, Stories, Way

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.

  Thomas Keating

  Venture, Enough, Tolerate

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life.

  Thomas Keating

  Responsibility, Intelligent, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.

  Thomas Keating

  World Religions, Arms, Essentials

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

  Thomas Keating

  Isms, Purpose, Elements

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions.

  Thomas Keating

  Loss, Technology, Promise

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

  Thomas Keating

  Technology, Work Out, Alternatives

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com