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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... midst of countless ups and downs, continues to grow even deeper. And yet it's also true that love itself did not get any deeper for all that. For from all eternity love is abysslike. From the very first moment love stirred within them ...
... midst of countless ups and downs, continues to grow even deeper. And yet it's also true that love itself did not get any deeper for all that. For from all eternity love is abysslike. From the very first moment love stirred within them ...
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... 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 was attending told the class about monasteries. I immediately equated monasteries with ...
... 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 was attending told the class about monasteries. I immediately equated monasteries with ...
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... midst of the ongoing stream of these ancient contemplative traditions I was learning about. For there I was, a would-be teenage mystic with acne, living in a monastery, wearing monk's robes, bowing and chanting, living in silence, more ...
... midst of the ongoing stream of these ancient contemplative traditions I was learning about. For there I was, a would-be teenage mystic with acne, living in a monastery, wearing monk's robes, bowing and chanting, living in silence, more ...
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... midst of a hectic, complex world, to continue living a contemplative way of life?” It was certainly true that the demands and pace of my daily life out in the world were no longer conducive to my every act becoming a meditation. But ...
... midst of a hectic, complex world, to continue living a contemplative way of life?” It was certainly true that the demands and pace of my daily life out in the world were no longer conducive to my every act becoming a meditation. But ...
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 |
Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God James Finley Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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