Thomas Keating Quotes

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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.
• God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
• 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…
• For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.
• 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…
• Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
• Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.
• 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…
• The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
• Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality…
• The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a…
• The root of prayer is interior silence.
• You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that…
• Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.
• God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.
• We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear…
• 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…
• In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
• 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…
• 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…

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