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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... mysterious depth of awareness that includes, even as it utterly transcends, the realm of ego consciousness and all that is less than God. My writing and your reading these reflections on meditation in a manner that becomes itself a ...
... mysterious depth of awareness that includes, even as it utterly transcends, the realm of ego consciousness and all that is less than God. My writing and your reading these reflections on meditation in a manner that becomes itself a ...
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... mystery that is the very reality of who we deep down really are and are called to be as persons created in the image ... mysterious than that. Imagine a man and 8 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
... mystery that is the very reality of who we deep down really are and are called to be as persons created in the image ... mysterious than that. Imagine a man and 8 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
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... mystery, not just in meditation, but in every moment of our lives. This is how Christ lived. Whether he was seeing a child crawling up into his lap or a leper wanting to be healed; whether he was seeing a prostitute or his own mother ...
... mystery, not just in meditation, but in every moment of our lives. This is how Christ lived. Whether he was seeing a child crawling up into his lap or a leper wanting to be healed; whether he was seeing a prostitute or his own mother ...
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... the sacred mystery that wholly permeates all of reality. The methods of Yoga and Zen—and, for that matter, the methods of the Jewish mystical tradition of the Kabbalah and the Muslim mystical tradition 18 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
... the sacred mystery that wholly permeates all of reality. The methods of Yoga and Zen—and, for that matter, the methods of the Jewish mystical tradition of the Kabbalah and the Muslim mystical tradition 18 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
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... mystery in which we all journey into God together. It is like that here. I, in writing these reflections, and each of you, in reading them, are right where each of us is in this particular moment of our spiritual journey. And yet we are ...
... mystery in which we all journey into God together. It is like that here. I, in writing these reflections, and each of you, in reading them, are right where each of us is in this particular moment of our spiritual journey. And yet we are ...
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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