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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 8
Página 4
... reading this book. But I know that most likely you are reading it in the hope that in doing so you might learn to practice meditation as a way of further deepening your awareness of a response to the presence of God in your daily life ...
... reading this book. But I know that most likely you are reading it in the hope that in doing so you might learn to practice meditation as a way of further deepening your awareness of a response to the presence of God in your daily life ...
Página 5
... reading these sincerely written words, your reading becomes a means of quietly awakening to more meditative modes of awareness in which we are alone together in the shared intention of our hearts. As the circle of our shared meditative ...
... reading these sincerely written words, your reading becomes a means of quietly awakening to more meditative modes of awareness in which we are alone together in the shared intention of our hearts. As the circle of our shared meditative ...
Página 7
... reading these reflections on meditation in a manner that becomes itself a meditation is a way of realizing that we are already on the path we are setting out to explore. We start out in ego consciousness, imagining that the union with ...
... reading these reflections on meditation in a manner that becomes itself a meditation is a way of realizing that we are already on the path we are setting out to explore. We start out in ego consciousness, imagining that the union with ...
Página 12
... reading I was exposed to the contemplative traditions of Christianity. I learned about the Desert Fathers of the third and fourth centuries, Saint Benedict and Saint Scholastica of the sixth century, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in the ...
... reading I was exposed to the contemplative traditions of Christianity. I learned about the Desert Fathers of the third and fourth centuries, Saint Benedict and Saint Scholastica of the sixth century, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in the ...
Página 15
... place in learning to live a deeply contemplative way of life in the midst of the world. I resumed reading Thomas Merton and the classical sources of contemplative Christianity. I tried as best I could to internalize Divine Destination 15.
... place in learning to live a deeply contemplative way of life in the midst of the world. I resumed reading Thomas Merton and the classical sources of contemplative Christianity. I tried as best I could to internalize Divine Destination 15.
Contenido
1 | |
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |
Términos y frases comunes
allow arises aspects attentiveness awake awakened become begin bodily breathing called Christ Christian clinging close comes completely consciousness contemplative continue Cross daily deep deepens depths desire discover divine embodies enter eternal experience experiencing eyes faith Father feelings flow fullness gazing give God’s God’s presence graced ground hands happens heart human Imagine infinite interior intimate Jesus John journey leave less lies listen living look manifesting manner matter means meditative awareness memories midst mind moments monastery move mystery mystics nature ness never occur once ourselves pass path person practice prayer present reading reality realize reflect rejecting remain rest river Saint seek sense share silence simply sit in meditation slowly Sometimes spiritual spontaneous stand stillness sustained tend things thoughts tion tradition transcends transformed true trying understand walking whole writes