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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... realize ourselves to be immersed in beginnings that never end. To be more advanced in meditation means, paradoxically, to discover that the oneness with God we seek was wholly present, without our realizing it, in the humble origins of ...
... realize ourselves to be immersed in beginnings that never end. To be more advanced in meditation means, paradoxically, to discover that the oneness with God we seek was wholly present, without our realizing it, in the humble origins of ...
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... with 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.
... with 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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... 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 God we seek is far off. After all, ego consciousness is the subjective perception of being a ...
... 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 God we seek is far off. After all, ego consciousness is the subjective perception of being a ...
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... realize directly the divine reality of reality itself. This is why we meditate: that we might awaken to the already present nature of the oneness with God we seek. You may feel that you have a long way to go before realizing the degree ...
... realize directly the divine reality of reality itself. This is why we meditate: that we might awaken to the already present nature of the oneness with God we seek. You may feel that you have a long way to go before realizing the degree ...
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... realized, and being as sincere as I could be about living a contemplative way of life. I was following a silent path, along which I was being awakened to a sense of oneness with God that utterly transformed my most intimate experience ...
... realized, and being as sincere as I could be about living a contemplative way of life. I was following a silent path, along which I was being awakened to a sense of oneness with God that utterly transformed my most intimate experience ...
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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