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• Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Desire

  Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. (2010). “The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living: Excerpts from the Works of Father Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O”, p.227, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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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

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• 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.

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  Practice, Stories, Way

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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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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• 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

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• Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

  Thomas Keating

  Humility, Self, Forgetfulness

  Thomas Keating (2002). “Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel”, p.72, A&C Black

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• We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.

  Thomas Keating

  Moving, Years, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.

  Thomas Keating

  Love, Humility, Acceptance

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• Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .

  Thomas Keating

  Love, Dark, Personality

  Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. (2012). “Invitation to Love 20th Anniversary Edition: The Way of Christian Contemplation”, p.103, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

  Thomas Keating

  Prayer, Thinking, Giving

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• 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

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• The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

  Thomas Keating

  Adventure, Emotional, Sobriety

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

  Thomas Keating

  Prayer, Expression, Attention

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• 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

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• While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

  Thomas Keating

  Letting Go, Prayer, Practice

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• is a process of inner transformation, a conversation initiated by God and leading, if we consent, to divine union. One's way of seeing reality changes in the process. A restructuring of consciousness takes place which empowers one to perceive, relate and respond with increasing sensitivity to the divine presence in, through, and beyond everything that exists.

  Thomas Keating

  Reality, Empowering, Unions

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

  Thomas Keating

  Animal, Helping, Consciousness

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One's children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.

  Thomas Keating

  Religious, Children, Home

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

  Thomas Keating

  Needs, Looks, Dynamics

  "Lent as Divine Therapy". Interview with Anne A. Simpkinson, www.beliefnet.com. February 2002.

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• 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

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• 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

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• If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.

  Thomas Keating

  Dna, Baptism, Body

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• 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

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