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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... consciousness to more interior, meditative levels of awareness of the spiritual dimensions of our lives. I will be referring to the more surface, matter-of-fact levels of consciousness as ego consciousness. By ego consciousness, I am ...
... consciousness to more interior, meditative levels of awareness of the spiritual dimensions of our lives. I will be referring to the more surface, matter-of-fact levels of consciousness as ego consciousness. By ego consciousness, I am ...
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... consciousness, I am referring to the consciousness that manifests itself in saying, “I want, I think, I need, I feel, I remember, I like, I don't like,” and so on. Ego consciousness is the day-by-day consciousness in which we tend to ...
... consciousness, I am referring to the consciousness that manifests itself in saying, “I want, I think, I need, I feel, I remember, I like, I don't like,” and so on. Ego consciousness is the day-by-day consciousness in which we tend to ...
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... consciousness. Sometimes instead of the word consciousness I will be using the word awareness or the word experience. Sometimes I will be using the traditional Christian terms contemplation, contemplative prayer, and, in some specific ...
... consciousness. Sometimes instead of the word consciousness I will be using the word awareness or the word experience. Sometimes I will be using the traditional Christian terms contemplation, contemplative prayer, and, in some specific ...
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... consciousness, we tend not to experience the divine mystery that is the very reality of who we deep down really are and are called to be as persons created in the image and likeness of God. Subject to the limitations of ego, we do not ...
... consciousness, we tend not to experience the divine mystery that is the very reality of who we deep down really are and are called to be as persons created in the image and likeness of God. Subject to the limitations of ego, we do not ...
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... consciousness that moves from spiritual reading to discursive meditation to prayer to contemplation. We will be looking at this traditional fourfold development in much greater detail in a later chapter. But for now these four terms can ...
... consciousness that moves from spiritual reading to discursive meditation to prayer to contemplation. We will be looking at this traditional fourfold development in much greater detail in a later chapter. But for now these four terms can ...
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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