Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

The root of prayer is interior silence.

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

— Thomas Keating

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

— Thomas Keating

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

All religions proclaim the advantages of peace, loving one another, and "doing to others what we would like them to do to…

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least…

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might…

— Thomas Keating

It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect…

— Thomas Keating

While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent…

— Thomas Keating

By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand…

— Thomas Keating

In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just…

— Thomas Keating

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to…

— Thomas Keating

In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit…

— Thomas Keating

Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and…

— Thomas Keating

Redemption basically is about holistic health, if you want to translate it into modern parlance. What I suggest - based on the…

— Thomas Keating

To become who we are as creatures made in the image and likeness of God, we have to be nothing and everything…

— Thomas Keating

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so…

— Thomas Keating

is a process of inner transformation, a conversation initiated by God and leading, if we consent, to divine union. One's way of…

— Thomas Keating

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…

— Thomas Keating

St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This…

— Thomas Keating

The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events…

— Thomas Keating

The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like…

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to…

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating