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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... aspects of meditation embody the self-transforming path along which we are awakened to our eternal oneness with God. Throughout this book I use both the masculine and feminine personal pronouns in referring to God. In the JudeoChristian ...
... aspects of meditation embody the self-transforming path along which we are awakened to our eternal oneness with God. Throughout this book I use both the masculine and feminine personal pronouns in referring to God. In the JudeoChristian ...
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... aspects of my own experience. It was not until years later, in going through my own psychotherapy and then in becoming a clinical psychologist who works with trauma survivors, that I was able to recognize Divine Destination 13.
... aspects of my own experience. It was not until years later, in going through my own psychotherapy and then in becoming a clinical psychologist who works with trauma survivors, that I was able to recognize Divine Destination 13.
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... aspect, is sometimes referred to as mystical experience or mystical prayer. The word mystical, as used in the classical Christian texts, does not refer to having visions, hearing God's voice, or experiencing any other similar ...
... aspect, is sometimes referred to as mystical experience or mystical prayer. The word mystical, as used in the classical Christian texts, does not refer to having visions, hearing God's voice, or experiencing any other similar ...
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... aspects of ego consciousness that tend to block the subtle, wholly spiritual contemplative states of realized oneness with God. Since the 1960s there has been a growing popularity of Yoga and Zen and other forms of Buddhist meditation ...
... aspects of ego consciousness that tend to block the subtle, wholly spiritual contemplative states of realized oneness with God. Since the 1960s there has been a growing popularity of Yoga and Zen and other forms of Buddhist meditation ...
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... aspects of realized union with God. As you know by your own experience, this is how it tends to work in real life: the truly profound is found in the truly simple. The acclaimed jazz musician John Coltrane was known to practice scales ...
... aspects of realized union with God. As you know by your own experience, this is how it tends to work in real life: the truly profound is found in the truly simple. The acclaimed jazz musician John Coltrane was known to practice scales ...
Contenido
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22 | |
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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