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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... remain the suffering that arises from experiencing ourselves as nothing more than our ego. For ego consciousness, in and of itself, is not expansive enough to fulfill our hearts. Ego consciousness is not generous enough or gracious ...
... remain the suffering that arises from experiencing ourselves as nothing more than our ego. For ego consciousness, in and of itself, is not expansive enough to fulfill our hearts. Ego consciousness is not generous enough or gracious ...
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... remain humbly open to the first stirrings of our journey into God, and our journey, will, in God's good time, get plenty deep, soon enough. Actually, it's more mysterious than that. Imagine a man and 8 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
... remain humbly open to the first stirrings of our journey into God, and our journey, will, in God's good time, get plenty deep, soon enough. Actually, it's more mysterious than that. Imagine a man and 8 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
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... remains: God writes straight with crooked lines. Grace uses faltering beginnings to achieve its own unforeseeable ends. At any rate, it is out of the stormy beginnings I have briefly shared with you here that I was first awakened to God ...
... remains: God writes straight with crooked lines. Grace uses faltering beginnings to achieve its own unforeseeable ends. At any rate, it is out of the stormy beginnings I have briefly shared with you here that I was first awakened to God ...
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... remains obscure, beyond what we have yet to experience. But as our perceptions become cleansed in our ongoing fidelity to meditation, we begin to see through meditative eyes the infinity of all that we see. And suddenly Blake's words ...
... remains obscure, beyond what we have yet to experience. But as our perceptions become cleansed in our ongoing fidelity to meditation, we begin to see through meditative eyes the infinity of all that we see. And suddenly Blake's words ...
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... remains the question of what to do in meditation with what we tend to think of as our minds. That is, there remains ... remain present, open, and awake to the thought as it passes away. In order to understand the intuitive logic of the ...
... remains the question of what to do in meditation with what we tend to think of as our minds. That is, there remains ... remain present, open, and awake to the thought as it passes away. In order to understand the intuitive logic of the ...
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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