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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... infinite, and, as such, beyond all finite categories, including the categories of masculine and feminine. At the same time, God is creator of all that is. As such, God is the infinite source, ground, and fulfillment of the feminine and ...
... infinite, and, as such, beyond all finite categories, including the categories of masculine and feminine. At the same time, God is creator of all that is. As such, God is the infinite source, ground, and fulfillment of the feminine and ...
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... infinite love creates our hearts in such a way that only an infinite union with infinite love will do. A life hemmed in by the closed horizon of ego consciousness is too impoverished, too one-dimensional to be the subjective ground in ...
... infinite love creates our hearts in such a way that only an infinite union with infinite love will do. A life hemmed in by the closed horizon of ego consciousness is too impoverished, too one-dimensional to be the subjective ground in ...
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... infinite assurance, an infinite peace—a refuge, a sense of enduring protection—in the midst of it all. It was at about this same time, when I was in the ninth grade, that an instructor in a religion class at the Catholic high school I ...
... infinite assurance, an infinite peace—a refuge, a sense of enduring protection—in the midst of it all. It was at about this same time, when I was in the ninth grade, that an instructor in a religion class at the Catholic high school I ...
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... 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 the very reality and fulfillment of ...
... 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 the very reality and fulfillment of ...
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... infinite.”2 In the beginning we might be able to recognize and appreciate the poetic beauty of Blake's statement even as the truth it proclaims remains obscure, beyond what we have yet to experience. But as our perceptions become ...
... infinite.”2 In the beginning we might be able to recognize and appreciate the poetic beauty of Blake's statement even as the truth it proclaims remains obscure, beyond what we have yet to experience. But as our perceptions become ...
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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