Centering Quote by Thomas Keating Download Open image “Centering prayer is a training in letting go.” — Thomas Keating ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Centering Centering prayer Fitness Letting go Prayer Training
“Centering Prayer is an opening, a response, a putting aside of all the debris that stands in the way of our being totally present… — Basil Pennington Copy Share Image
While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When I manage to keep my center, it's usually because I've taken prayer seriously. — Jonathan Jackson Copy Share Image
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
“As St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) taught, whatever we say about God is more unlike God than saying nothing. If we do say something, it… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
I also use that centering process I mentioned as a way to focus my mind and connect it to my physical body. I feel… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Energy-fire experiences take us into ourselves only that we might reach outside of ourselves. Metanoia is a de-centering experience of connected-ness and community. It… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“The sensuality of her grief, thawing. Her power coming into focus, still so chaotic inside her. I love the way she splurged on this… — Laurie Perez Copy Share Image
I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
