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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... interior, meditative awareness of oneness with God. It is in this pervasive atmosphere of meditative living that each monk or nun is left free to find his or her way to whatever form of meditation he or she might be interiorly inclined ...
... interior, meditative awareness of oneness with God. It is in this pervasive atmosphere of meditative living that each monk or nun is left free to find his or her way to whatever form of meditation he or she might be interiorly inclined ...
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... interior level you are here with me as I write. And of course all of this applies to you as well: you look about you and I'm nowhere to be seen. But insofar as you are sincerely reading these sincerely written words, your reading ...
... interior level you are here with me as I write. And of course all of this applies to you as well: you look about you and I'm nowhere to be seen. But insofar as you are sincerely reading these sincerely written words, your reading ...
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... the infinite might be realized. A commitment to daily meditation embodies the paradoxical process of learning to enter more interior, meditative states of consciousness that transcend ego and all that ego 6 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
... the infinite might be realized. A commitment to daily meditation embodies the paradoxical process of learning to enter more interior, meditative states of consciousness that transcend ego and all that ego 6 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
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... interior consciousness as meditative 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 ...
... interior consciousness as meditative 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 ...
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... interior, meditative states of realized oneness with God. Monastic life was the method of meditation, in this broad sense, that was being taught. The daily silence and the chanting of the psalms in the monastic choir, the manual labor ...
... interior, meditative states of realized oneness with God. Monastic life was the method of meditation, in this broad sense, that was being taught. The daily silence and the chanting of the psalms in the monastic choir, the manual labor ...
Contenido
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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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