Attention Quote by Thomas Keating

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

“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

“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”

— Simone Weil

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all…

— Patricia Hampl

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

— Thomas Keating

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

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

— Pope John XXIII

Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

— Simone Weil

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

“Prayer is not primarily saying words or thinking thoughts. It is, rather, a stance. It’s a way of living in the Presence, living in…

— Richard Rohr

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

— W. H. Auden