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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... the more fitting in a book of contemplative spirituality, which seeks to evoke a graced awareness of oneness with God that recognizes and transcends all finite categories and distinctions. C H A P T E R 1 Divine Destination xii Foreword.
... the more fitting in a book of contemplative spirituality, which seeks to evoke a graced awareness of oneness with God that recognizes and transcends all finite categories and distinctions. C H A P T E R 1 Divine Destination xii Foreword.
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... graced evolution of 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 ...
... graced evolution of 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 ...
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... graced identification with God's own infinite actuality. Contemplation, or contemplative prayer, evolves within these dynamics of active receptivity to a oneness with God, which, in our powerlessness to attain it, grants itself to us as ...
... graced identification with God's own infinite actuality. Contemplation, or contemplative prayer, evolves within these dynamics of active receptivity to a oneness with God, which, in our powerlessness to attain it, grants itself to us as ...
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... graced realization of oneness with God and the mystical fulfillment received in this active seeking. I hope those of you who are just now beginning to explore meditation have been fairly comfortable with the pace and tone of this first ...
... graced realization of oneness with God and the mystical fulfillment received in this active seeking. I hope those of you who are just now beginning to explore meditation have been fairly comfortable with the pace and tone of this first ...
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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