Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of GodHarper Collins, 2009 M10 13 - 304 páginas Enter a Monastery Without Walls Christian Meditation introduces an ancient practice to a contemporary audience. James Finley, a former monk and student of Thomas Merton, presents the fundamentals of both understanding and practicing Christian meditation. He provides simple, helpful instructions, as well as explaining the deeper connection with the divine that meditation can bring. Above all, he makes clear that the aim of meditation is to allow us to experience divine contemplation -- the presence of God. |
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... Stella, Keith Egan, Amy Nichols, Lloyd Fredericks, Herb Kaighan, and the members of The Contemplative Way community at Saint Monica Church in Santa Monica, California. Foreword Since the time of the Desert Fathers in the ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... Stella, Keith Egan, Amy Nichols, Lloyd Fredericks, Herb Kaighan, and the members of The Contemplative Way community at Saint Monica Church in Santa Monica, California. Foreword Since the time of the Desert Fathers in the ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
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Experiencing the Presence of God James Finley. Foreword. Since. the time of the Desert Fathers in the third and fourth centuries, Christians have practiced meditation as a way of experiencing and responding to God's presence in their daily ...
Experiencing the Presence of God James Finley. Foreword. Since. the time of the Desert Fathers in the third and fourth centuries, Christians have practiced meditation as a way of experiencing and responding to God's presence in their daily ...
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... father and mother and I and my five younger siblings suffered from the effects of my father's alcoholism and the violence and chaos that were often associated with it. During the years I was growing up my father seemed to be indifferent ...
... father and mother and I and my five younger siblings suffered from the effects of my father's alcoholism and the violence and chaos that were often associated with it. During the years I was growing up my father seemed to be indifferent ...
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... father if I could go to the monastery to be a monk. He was trimming the hedges out in front of the house at the time. I recall sensing that he might get so enraged at what I was about to ask that he might hurt me with the hedge trimmers ...
... father if I could go to the monastery to be a monk. He was trimming the hedges out in front of the house at the time. I recall sensing that he might get so enraged at what I was about to ask that he might hurt me with the hedge trimmers ...
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... father might come bursting into the church at any moment. After Mass, I went across the street to the Greyhound ... Fathers of the third and fourth centuries, Saint Benedict and Saint Scholastica of the sixth century, Saint Bernard of ...
... father might come bursting into the church at any moment. After Mass, I went across the street to the Greyhound ... Fathers of the third and fourth centuries, Saint Benedict and Saint Scholastica of the sixth century, Saint Bernard of ...
Contenido
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Meditative Experience | 42 |
A Ladder to Heaven | 72 |
A Monastery Without Walls | 101 |
The SelfTransforming Journey | 130 |
Entering the Mind of Christ | 175 |
Present Open and Awake | 203 |
Sit Still | 216 |
Sit Straight | 229 |
Slow Deep Natural Breathing | 242 |
Eyes Closed or Lowered Toward the Ground | 253 |
Walking Meditation | 266 |
Compassion | 278 |
Notes | 287 |
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Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God James Finley Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God James Finley Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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