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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... eternal oneness with God. Throughout this book I use both the masculine and feminine personal pronouns in referring to God. In the JudeoChristian tradition God is understood as infinite, and, as such, beyond all finite categories ...
... eternal oneness with God. Throughout this book I use both the masculine and feminine personal pronouns in referring to God. In the JudeoChristian tradition God is understood as infinite, and, as such, beyond all finite categories ...
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... eternal oneness with God as revealed to us in Christ (Rom. 8:26). Down through the centuries and into our own day, Christian mystics, monks and nuns living in monasteries, hermits, and countless seekers living in the world have yielded ...
... eternal oneness with God as revealed to us in Christ (Rom. 8:26). Down through the centuries and into our own day, Christian mystics, monks and nuns living in monasteries, hermits, and countless seekers living in the world have yielded ...
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... eternal oneness with God that is the very reality of ourselves and of everyone and everything around us. I will be referring to this more interior consciousness as meditative consciousness. Sometimes instead of the word consciousness I ...
... eternal oneness with God that is the very reality of ourselves and of everyone and everything around us. I will be referring to this more interior consciousness as meditative consciousness. Sometimes instead of the word consciousness I ...
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... eternal yes to us in having created us in his image and likeness, as persons called to share in God's life to the point of realizing a graced identification with God's own infinite actuality. Contemplation, or contemplative prayer ...
... eternal yes to us in having created us in his image and likeness, as persons called to share in God's life to the point of realizing a graced identification with God's own infinite actuality. Contemplation, or contemplative prayer ...
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... eternal oneness with God. Be simply present in a “Here I am, Lord” (I Sam. 3:4) stance of openness to God. Allow your bodily stillness to embody a childlike faith in God present all about you and within you as you sit. The second ...
... eternal oneness with God. Be simply present in a “Here I am, Lord” (I Sam. 3:4) stance of openness to God. Allow your bodily stillness to embody a childlike faith in God present all about you and within you as you sit. The second ...
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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Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God James Finley Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
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