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

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

We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more…

— 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

Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side…

— Thomas Keating

We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion,…

— 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

The root of prayer is interior silence.

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ...…

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating

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

— 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

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

— Thomas Keating

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements…

— 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

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

The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however,…

— Thomas Keating

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

— 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

Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already…

— Thomas Keating

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

— Thomas Keating